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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Sunday 27 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
18
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 Reche Canyon Rd Colton_Area Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
18 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 27 September at 8:59am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.036, -117.284lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 11.1 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 21% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Pigeon Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Kalmia Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 7.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Orange2 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 7.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Locust Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 7.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Armstrong Fire started on Friday 4 September, 8.1 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Darby Fire started on Monday 24 August, 8.4 miles north-west, and has reached 3 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm 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.