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 5 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
39
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Saddle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Ventura 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.
39 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 5:46pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.173, -118.863lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 1.5 miles from the fire: 83°F, air at 14% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Arroyo Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.7 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-322773 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 5.2 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Vnco Vedder Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 5.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Campus Fire started on Friday 28 August, 7.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Madera Inc Fire started on Friday 2 October, 8.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dell Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 8.6 miles 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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.