Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Palm Fire

Burning 5.6 miles north of Coalinga and 15.5 miles west of Huron, since Friday 28 August.

Map of California. The Palm Fire burns 174 miles from Sacramento, and 174 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 174 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Palm Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

48 days

on record — first written down on Friday 28 August at 7:11am local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.209, -120.373lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.2 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 20% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rey Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Rick Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Karen Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 5.0 miles south, and has reached 2 acres. Jayne Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 5.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Elm Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 6.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Zzcoal Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 8.1 miles south-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 28 August

    First reported

  2. Friday 28 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac