Awatchfire

Merced County, California

Nees Fire

Burning 10.5 miles south-west of South Dos Palos and 13.9 miles south of Los Banos, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of California. The Nees Fire burns 123 miles from Sacramento, and 123 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 123 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

46

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Nees Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 534 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 534 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Nees Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

534hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

9.4miles

is how close the heat has come to South Dos Palos at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Los Banos is 11.5 miles, None in the last day.

2.5miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 9.7 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 22% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-48 fire

The record here begins at 2:37am on 22 Sep and runs to 3:15am on 23 Sep — 25 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 48, so the first 46 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Nees Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 32 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Tue 2:00amWed 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 2 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 22 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue22 Sep

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:37am
    • Spread 2.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Seplatest

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 3:15am
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 534 hours, and the record still lists it as active.