Awatchfire

Mono County, California

Sand Fire

Burning 0.9 miles north-east of Swall Meadows and 2.7 miles north-west of Paradise, since Wednesday 30 September.

Map of California. The Sand Fire burns 171 miles from Sacramento, and 171 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 171 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

15

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Sand Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mono 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.

15 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 30 September at 6:17am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.515, -118.630lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.1 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 26% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Transfer Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 3.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Highway Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 5.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Wheeler Fire started on Monday 10 August, 6.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Convict Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 13.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Wednesday 30 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 30 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac