Burning 5.9 miles north of Camp Pendleton Mainside and 6.9 miles west of Fallbrook, since Saturday 5 September.
The fire sits 426 miles from Sacramento.
0
acres burned so far
39
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Sc/Pmq Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 883 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 883 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
883hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:15pm on Tuesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
5.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Camp Pendleton Mainside at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Fallbrook is 7.8 miles, None in the last day.
1.5miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Hawk Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Niner Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Turret Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 1.9 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 1.9 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 17% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-41 fire
The record here begins at 1:32pm on 5 Sep and runs to 2:16pm on 8 Sep — 73 hours, 6 readings of heat. The fire is on day 41, so the first 39 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.
The whole record, 27 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Sat5 Sep
First readings
4 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 1:32pm to 8:53pm
Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon and evening
Tue8 Seplatest
Today so far
2 heat readings
Energy 32% down on the day before
Heat from 2:16pm to 2:16pm
Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Saturday 5 September
First reported
Saturday 5 September
0 acres on record
0 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 883 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
