Awatchfire

Inyo County, California

Q6 Fire

Burning 3.6 miles south of Independence and 15.4 miles north of Lone Pine, since Wednesday 14 October.

Map of California. The Q6 Fire burns 218 miles from Sacramento, and 218 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 218 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

14

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Q6 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Inyo 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.

14 hours

on record — first written down on Wednesday 14 October at 6:53pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.781, -118.184lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.2 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 18% humidity, a 16 mph wind out of the north.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Fort Fire started on Monday 28 September, 5.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Division Fire started on Friday 4 September, 11.8 miles north, and has reached 6 acres. Perkins Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 14.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Teapot Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Wednesday 14 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 14 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac