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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Friday 25 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
19
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 Sandia Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in San Diego 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.
19 days
on record — first written down on Friday 25 September at 4:21pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.410, -117.243lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.1 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 17% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Tanya Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dorado Fire started 17 minutes after this one, 1.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mission Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Patton Ln Tem Fire started 11 minutes after this one, 1.9 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Carancho Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.8 miles north, and has reached 14 acres. Vista Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 5.2 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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm 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.