Awatchfire

Monterey County, California

Plaskett Fire

Burning 11.6 miles south-west of Fort Hunter Liggett and 18.9 miles west of Lockwood, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of California. The Plaskett Fire burns 184 miles from Sacramento, and 184 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 184 miles from Sacramento.

120

acres burned so far

2

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Plaskett Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 12 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 12 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Plaskett Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

12hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:05am on Friday, local time.

29readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

10.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Fort Hunter Liggett at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 10.7 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lockwood is 17.2 miles, 17.8 in the last day.

2.9miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 15 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 30 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

1.2 miles north-west of the recorded point

29 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 86°F, air at 35% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-3 fire

The record here begins at 9:56am on 26 Aug and runs to 2:07am on 28 Aug — 40 hours, 100 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Plaskett Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 16 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 9:00amFri 2:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 3 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    First readings

    • 24 heat readings
    • Heat from 9:56am to 8:57pm
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the morning, afternoon and evening
  2. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 47 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 5:19am
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and morning
  3. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 29 heat readings
    • Energy 89% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:07am
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 55 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 120 now. Nothing has looked at it for 12 hours, and the record still lists it as active.