Awatchfire

Tuolumne County, California

Piute Fire

Burning 11.2 miles east of Strawberry and 13.3 miles east of Cold Springs, since Wednesday 30 September.

Map of California. The Piute Fire burns 94 miles from Sacramento, and 94 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 94 miles from Sacramento.

52

acres burned so far

14

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Piute Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 52 acres in Tuolumne 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

14 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 30 September at 9:18am local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.162, -119.809lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.1 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 14% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Groundhog Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 2.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Deer Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 2.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Paw Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 3.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Bear Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 3.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Buck Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 3.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Lake Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.7 miles west, 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. Wednesday 30 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 30 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Thursday 1 October

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac
  4. Thursday 1 October

    Grew to 6 acres

    6 ac
  5. Thursday 1 October

    Revised to 4 acres

    4 ac
  6. Saturday 3 October

    Grew to 40 acres

    40 ac
  7. Saturday 3 October

    Grew to 45 acres

    45 ac
  8. Monday 5 October

    Grew to 47 acres

    47 ac
  9. Wednesday 7 October

    Grew to 52 acres

    52 ac