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Calaveras County, California

Oro Fire

Burning 0.2 miles north of Paloma and 4.4 miles south-west of Mokelumne Hill, since Friday 4 September.

Map of California. The Oro Fire burns 44 miles from Sacramento, and 44 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 44 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Oro Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Calaveras 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.

40 days

on record — first written down on Friday 4 September at 3:09pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.264, -120.764lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.2 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 21% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Victory Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 5.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Ace Fire started on Monday 21 September, 6.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Gann Fire started on Monday 3 August, 10.8 miles south, and has reached 10,339 acres with 689 people assigned. Baker Fire started on Friday 11 September, 11.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Avenue Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 12.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. House Fire started on Monday 28 September, 13.4 miles north-east, 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 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.

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac