Awatchfire

Merced County, California

Rome Fire

Burning 4.9 miles west of Santa Nella and 10.3 miles west of Volta, since Friday 16 October.

Map of California. The Rome Fire burns 104 miles from Sacramento, and 104 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 104 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 5:15pm today

The Rome Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Merced 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Friday 16 October at 3:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.084, -121.102lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.3 miles from the fire: 87°F, air at 18% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Romero Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 0.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 25 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 16 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 16 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac