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 9 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
36
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 11:09am today
The Rim Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Sioux County, nd. 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.
36 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 9 September at 12:45am local time.
46.101, -100.638lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.3 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 63% humidity, a 30 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. School Yard Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 0.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. South Causeway Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 0.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Old Rd Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 1.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Stone pile Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 1.0 miles west, and has reached 3 acres. City Park Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 1.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Tank Fire started 180 minutes before this one, 1.1 miles south-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 11 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 10:00am and 12:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 113 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.