Awatchfire

Riverside County, California

Porter Fire

Burning 3.5 miles south-east of Banning and 4.2 miles west of Cabazon, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of California. The Porter Fire burns 412 miles from Sacramento, and 412 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 412 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 11:35pm today

The Porter Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Riverside 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.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 9:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.911, -116.856lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.8 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 35% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Panarama Fire started on Monday 31 August, 1.7 miles south, and has reached 14 acres. Panorama Fire started on Monday 31 August, 1.7 miles south, and has reached 25 acres. Malki Fire started on Friday 18 September, 2.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Rru/60A Fire started on Monday 14 September, 7.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Dump Fire started on Friday 2 October, 8.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Oak Glen Rd / Apple Tree Ln Fire started on Monday 31 August, 8.4 miles north-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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 7 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. Thursday 15 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 15 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac