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.
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Sunday 12 April
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
185
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Neal Ranch Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Kern 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
185 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 12 April at 5:15pm local time.
35.725, -117.862lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.2 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 15% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Neal Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Short Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 1.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/44A Fire started on Wednesday 29 April, 6.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/Felspar Fire started on Monday 11 May, 8.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Veg/44A Fire started on Saturday 23 May, 10.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Bdu/Little Fire started on Sunday 19 July, 14.8 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.
No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.
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.