Awatchfire

Merced County, California

Olsen Fire

Burning 2.8 miles north-west of Snelling and 7.2 miles south of La Grange, since Monday 19 October.

Map of California. The Olsen Fire burns 89 miles from Sacramento, and 89 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 89 miles from Sacramento.

15

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 4:07pm today

The Olsen Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 15 acres in Merced 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.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Monday 19 October at 2:28pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.559, -120.462lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.2 miles from the fire: 87°F, air at 16% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Falls Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Bridge Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 7.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Lugo Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 8.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Alamo Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 9.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Leyenda Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 11.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Ladera Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 11.7 miles north-east, and has reached 2 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 32 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. Monday 19 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 19 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Monday 19 October

    Grew to 15 acres

    15 ac