The official record as of 9:09am today
The Short Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Kern 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.
74 days
on record — first written down on
Saturday 1 August
at 10:01am local time, starting at 0 acres.
35.706, -117.869lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 1.9 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 15% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Neal Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Neal Ranch Fire started on Sunday 12 April, 1.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mtz/Krn/44A Fire started on Wednesday 29 April, 5.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/Felspar Fire started on Monday 11 May, 7.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Veg/44A Fire started on Saturday 23 May, 10.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. College Fire started on Saturday 4 July, 14.9 miles south-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.
No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.
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.
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Saturday 1 August
First reported
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Wednesday 9 September
0 acres on record
0 ac