Awatchfire

San Bernardino County, California

Powerline Fire

Burning 5.6 miles north-east of Lucerne Valley and 16.6 miles north of Big Bear City, since Saturday 25 April.

Map of California. The Powerline Fire burns 382 miles from Sacramento, and 382 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 382 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

173

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Powerline Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Bernardino 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.

173 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 25 April at 8:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.494, -116.825lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.2 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 57% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rabbit Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 2.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Bdc/83A Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 9.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Custer Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 9.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Hitchcock Fire started on Friday 25 September, 13.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Orchard Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 13.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Agua Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 15.0 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 10 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 25 April

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 14 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac