Awatchfire

San Bernardino County, California

Siesta Fire

Burning 7.2 miles east of Joshua Tree and 7.3 miles west of Twentynine Palms, since Friday 18 September.

Map of California. The Siesta Fire burns 423 miles from Sacramento, and 423 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 423 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

26

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Siesta Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Bernardino 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.

26 days

on record — first written down on Friday 18 September at 7:57pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.158, -116.194lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.7 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 31% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the north.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm 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. Friday 18 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 18 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac