Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Rose Fire

Burning 6.3 miles north of Lebec and 8.4 miles north-east of Lake of the Woods, since Monday 31 August.

Map of California. The Rose Fire burns 288 miles from Sacramento, and 288 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 288 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

44

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Rose Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 348 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 348 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Rose Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

348hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 8:45pm on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

6.6miles

is how close the heat has come to Lebec at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lake of the Woods is 8.6 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Buzzard Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 2.3 miles south, and has reached 902 acres with 55 people assigned. Grapevine Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 0.6 miles south-east, 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.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Ridge Fire 11.3 miles south-east at 1,134 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 10.1 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 21% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-46 fire

The record here begins at 8:47pm on 30 Sep and runs to 8:47pm on 30 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 46, so the first 45 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Rose Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 8:00pmWed 8:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

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. Monday 31 August

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 348 hours, and the record still lists it as active.