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Fresno County, California

Sand Creek Sand_Creek Fire

Burning 2.9 miles south-east of Squaw Valley and 8.7 miles north-east of Orange Cove, since Tuesday 22 September.

Map of California. The Sand Creek Sand_Creek Fire burns 181 miles from Sacramento, and 181 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 181 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

22

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sand Creek Sand_Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

22 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 22 September at 12:08pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.681, -119.181lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.0 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 20% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mistle Fire started on Friday 28 August, 1.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Valley Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 1.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 1.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Sandy Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 3.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Wax Fire started on Monday 7 September, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lap Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.7 miles north-east, 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.

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 161 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. Tuesday 22 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 22 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac