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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.

29,993

acres burned so far — about 47 square miles

49

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Plaskett Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 438 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 438 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

438hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20am on Sunday, local time.

0readings

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

5.9miles

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 None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lockwood is 13.1 miles, None in the last day.

5.8miles

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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 22% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

21 days of record on a day-51 fire

The record here begins at 9:56am on 26 Aug and runs to 3:21am on 27 Sep — 761 hours, 2,609 readings of heat. The fire is on day 51, so the first 30 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.

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, 257 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 21 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

    Holding

    • 47 heat readings
    • 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 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 38 heat readings
    • Energy 75% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:23pm
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  4. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 644 heat readings
    • Energy 126.8 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:24am to 9:17pm
    • Spread 4.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  5. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Holding

    • 838 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 21% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 9:55pm
    • Spread 5.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  6. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 463 heat readings
    • Energy 89% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 8:57pm
    • Spread 5.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and evening
  7. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Holding

    • 275 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 9:34pm
    • Spread 5.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  8. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 118 heat readings
    • Energy 65% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 4:50pm
    • Spread 5.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  9. Map for Thu 3 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu3 Sep

    Holding

    • 67 heat readings
    • Energy 48% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:54am to 9:14pm
    • Spread 5.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  10. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 11 heat readings
    • Energy 91% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 3:12pm
    • Spread 5.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  11. Map for Sat 5 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat5 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 24 heat readings
    • Energy 4.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:58am to 3:14pm
    • Spread 4.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  12. Map for Sun 6 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun6 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 83% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:33pm to 2:53pm
    • Spread 4.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  13. Map for Mon 7 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon7 Sep

    Holding

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 1.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:36pm
    • Spread 4.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  14. Map for Tue 8 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue8 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 19 heat readings
    • Energy 8.2 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:21pm to 3:01pm
    • Spread 4.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  15. Map for Wed 9 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed9 Sep

    Holding

    • 12 heat readings
    • Energy 1.2 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:17am to 4:22pm
    • Spread 4.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  16. Map for Thu 10 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu10 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 93% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:19pm to 2:59pm
    • Spread 4.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  17. Map for Sun 13 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun13 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 96% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:04am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  18. Map for Mon 14 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon14 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 10 heat readings
    • Energy 151.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:08pm to 4:14pm
    • Spread 4.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  19. Map for Tue 15 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue15 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 80% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:25pm to 2:29pm
    • Spread 4.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  20. Map for Sat 19 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat19 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 10% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:55pm to 2:55pm
    • Spread 4.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  21. Map for Sun 27 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun27 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 93% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:21am to 3:21am
    • Spread 3.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 26 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 100 acres

    100 ac

  4. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 120 acres — containment 0%, 55 personnel

    120 ac · 0% held · 55 crew

  5. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 5,417 acres — 481 personnel

    5,417 ac · 0% held · 481 crew

  6. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 8,241 acres — 661 personnel

    8,241 ac · 0% held · 661 crew

  7. Saturday 29 August

    Containment 1%

    8,241 ac · 1% held · 661 crew

  8. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 15,479 acres — 897 personnel

    15,479 ac · 1% held · 897 crew

  9. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 26,734 acres — 955 personnel

    26,734 ac · 1% held · 955 crew

  10. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 28,968 acres — 1408 personnel

    28,968 ac · 1% held · 1408 crew

  11. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 29,123 acres — 1668 personnel

    29,123 ac · 1% held · 1668 crew

  12. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 29,702 acres — containment 19%, 2058 personnel

    29,702 ac · 19% held · 2058 crew

  13. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 29,768 acres — containment 23%, 2134 personnel

    29,768 ac · 23% held · 2134 crew

  14. Saturday 5 September

    Grew to 29,831 acres — containment 31%, 2287 personnel

    29,831 ac · 31% held · 2287 crew

  15. Sunday 6 September

    Grew to 29,862 acres — containment 37%, 2211 personnel

    29,862 ac · 37% held · 2211 crew

  16. Monday 7 September

    Containment 47% — 2177 personnel

    29,862 ac · 47% held · 2177 crew

  17. Tuesday 8 September

    Containment 61% — 1879 personnel

    29,862 ac · 61% held · 1879 crew

  18. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 29,914 acres — containment 73%, 1447 personnel

    29,914 ac · 73% held · 1447 crew

  19. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 29,942 acres — containment 79%, 1328 personnel

    29,942 ac · 79% held · 1328 crew

  20. Friday 11 September

    Containment 83% — 1285 personnel

    29,942 ac · 83% held · 1285 crew

  21. Saturday 12 September

    Grew to 29,961 acres — 729 personnel

    29,961 ac · 83% held · 729 crew

  22. Sunday 13 September

    Containment 89% — 456 personnel

    29,961 ac · 89% held · 456 crew

  23. Monday 14 September

    Grew to 29,976 acres — 468 personnel

    29,976 ac · 89% held · 468 crew

  24. Tuesday 15 September

    Grew to 29,993 acres — 348 personnel

    29,993 ac · 89% held · 348 crew

  25. Wednesday 16 September

    Containment 97% — 333 personnel

    29,993 ac · 97% held · 333 crew

  26. Friday 25 September

    Containment 98% — 431 personnel

    29,993 ac · 98% held · 431 crew

  27. Sunday 27 September

    Containment 99% — 372 personnel

    29,993 ac · 99% held · 372 crew

  28. Tuesday 29 September

    Containment 100% — 344 personnel

    29,993 ac · 100% held · 344 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 344 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 29,993 now. Nothing has looked at it for 438 hours, and the record still lists it as active.