Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Power Fire

Burning 3.7 miles north-west of Auberry and 8.1 miles south of North Fork, since Saturday 24 October.

Map of California. The Power Fire burns 147 miles from Sacramento, and 147 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 147 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 4:15pm today

The Power Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Saturday 24 October at 3:12pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.118, -119.506lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.9 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 54% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Horse Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 0.3 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Powerhouse Rd Auberry Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 0.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Berry Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Auberry Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 4.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Qual Fire started on Monday 24 August, 5.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Dump Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 5.4 miles south, 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 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 120 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. Saturday 24 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 24 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac