Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

Mutual Aid/Descanso Fire

Burning 2.8 miles south of Descanso and 6.8 miles east of Alpine, since Saturday 17 October.

Map of California. The Mutual Aid/Descanso Fire burns 480 miles from Sacramento, and 480 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 480 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 1:21pm today

The Mutual Aid/Descanso Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Diego County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 17 October at 11:47am local time, starting at 0 acres.

32.830, -116.639lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.9 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 24% humidity, a 35 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Vf/Drd Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 1.6 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Burrell Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 3.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Fog Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sunrise Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 8.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Fa/Drd Fire started on Friday 11 September, 8.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 5-1 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 9.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 21 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Saturday 17 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 17 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac