Awatchfire

Inyo County, California

Steel Pass Fire

Burning 22.7 miles north of Keeler and 23.3 miles north-east of Lone Pine, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of California. The Steel Pass Fire burns 236 miles from Sacramento, and 236 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 236 miles from Sacramento.

2

acres burned so far

29

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Steel Pass Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 708 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 708 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Steel Pass Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

708hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 8:50pm on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

22.6miles

is how close the heat has come to Keeler 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 Lone Pine is 23.3 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 23.6 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 25% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-31 fire

The record here begins at 8:51pm on 15 Sep and runs to 8:51pm on 15 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 31, so the first 30 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.

Animated map of the Steel Pass Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Tue 8:00pmTue 8:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Tue 15 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue15 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 8:51pm to 8:51pm
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the evening

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 15 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 15 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Wednesday 16 September

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac

  4. Wednesday 16 September

    Revised to 2 acres

    2 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 2 now. Nothing has looked at it for 708 hours, and the record still lists it as active.