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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Tuesday 6 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
8
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 Onyx 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.
8 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 6 October at 3:06pm local time.
35.686, -118.224lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 9.5 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 19% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Kelso Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Cyrus Fire started on Friday 9 October, 10.9 miles west, and has reached 543 acres with 12 people assigned. Yankee Fire started on Thursday 30 April, 12.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Auxiliary Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 13.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Tice Fire started 176 minutes after this one, 14.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Calgary Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 15.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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.