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Mariposa County, California

Sherlock Fire

Burning 3.9 miles north-east of Mt. Bullion and 4.2 miles west of Midpines, since Tuesday 13 October.

Map of California. The Sherlock Fire burns 106 miles from Sacramento, and 106 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 106 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

42

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sherlock Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mariposa 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.

42 hours

on record — first written down on Tuesday 13 October at 3:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.557, -120.005lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.8 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 22% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Colorado Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 3.6 miles east, and has reached 233 acres. Carleton Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 6.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Bar Fire started on Monday 28 September, 7.6 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Boyer Fire started on Monday 28 September, 10.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Tiptop Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 11.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Main Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 14.9 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 11:00am and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 13 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 13 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac