Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Qual Fire

Burning 2.0 miles south of Auberry and 7.3 miles west of Shaver Lake, since Monday 24 August.

Map of California. The Qual Fire burns 152 miles from Sacramento, and 152 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 152 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Qual 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 8:12am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.060, -119.449lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.2 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 25% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Berry Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 1.4 miles north-west, and has reached 2 acres. Dump Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Auberry Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 1.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Roc Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 4.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Horse Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached 3 acres. Powerhouse Rd Auberry Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Monday 24 August

    First reported

  2. Monday 24 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac