Awatchfire

Inyo County, California

Perkins Fire

Burning 11.6 miles north-west of Independence and 15.4 miles south of Big Pine, since Sunday 6 September.

Map of California. The Perkins Fire burns 203 miles from Sacramento, and 203 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 203 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

38

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Perkins Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Inyo 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.

38 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 6 September at 2:33pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.948, -118.357lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.8 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 18% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Division Fire started on Friday 4 September, 6.5 miles east, and has reached 6 acres. Teapot Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 6.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Fort Fire started on Monday 28 September, 9.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Arrow Creek Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.5 miles south-west, and has reached 4 acres. Q6 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 14.9 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.

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.

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. Sunday 6 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 6 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac