Burning 1.5 miles west of Rivergrove and 3.8 miles north of La Cresta, since Tuesday 25 August.
The fire sits 256 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
50
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Sister Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1158 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1158 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1158hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Friday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
2.6miles
is how close the heat has come to Rivergrove 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 La Cresta is 3.7 miles, None in the last day.
2.3miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Amber Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ca-Krn Amber Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Gran Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 3.7 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Grove Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Junction Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 19.7 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 20% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-52 fire
The record here begins at 2:26am on 27 Aug and runs to 2:43am on 28 Aug — 24 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, so the first 50 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 31 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Thu 2:00amFri 2:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 2 days of record
Thu27 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:26am to 2:26am
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Fri28 Auglatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Tuesday 25 August
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 1158 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
