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.
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Wednesday 2 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
42
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Real Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Santa Barbara 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.
42 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 2:45pm local time.
34.465, -120.005lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.3 miles from the fire: 83°F, air at 15% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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.