Awatchfire

Tulare County, California

Sandy Fire

Burning 4.4 miles south of Squaw Valley and 5.6 miles north-east of Orange Cove, since Sunday 27 September.

Map of California. The Sandy Fire burns 180 miles from Sacramento, and 180 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 180 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

17

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sandy Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tulare 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.

17 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 27 September at 12:48pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.658, -119.228lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.9 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. Sand Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 2.0 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mistle Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Creek Sand_Creek Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 3.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Orange 2 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Valley Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Wax Fire started on Monday 7 September, 6.2 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. Sunday 27 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 27 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac