The official record as of 2:20am today
The Rocky Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Kern 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.
33 days
on record — first written down on
Saturday 12 September
at 3:12pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
35.584, -118.468lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 1.7 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 24% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Tice Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. River Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Hogye Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Auxiliary Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 4.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Yankee Fire started on Thursday 30 April, 5.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Cyrus Fire started on Friday 9 October, 8.4 miles north, and has reached 543 acres with 12 people assigned. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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.
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Saturday 12 September
First reported
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Saturday 12 September
0 acres on record
0 ac