Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Rocky Fire

Burning 1.2 miles north-east of Bodfish and 3.8 miles south of Lake Isabella, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of California. The Rocky Fire burns 264 miles from Sacramento, and 264 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 264 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

33

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

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.

  1. Saturday 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac