Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Rick Fire

Burning 5.2 miles north-west of Coalinga and 16.5 miles west of Huron, since Friday 9 October.

Map of California. The Rick Fire burns 174 miles from Sacramento, and 174 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 174 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Rick 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.

5 days

on record — first written down on Friday 9 October at 7:18pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.195, -120.391lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 20% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Palm Fire started on Friday 28 August, 1.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rey Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 1.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Jayne Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Karen Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 4.1 miles south, and has reached 2 acres. Elm Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 5.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Zzcoal Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 7.8 miles south-east, 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 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. Friday 9 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 9 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac