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Riverside County, California

Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr Fire

Burning 2.3 miles south-east of El Cerrito and 4.1 miles north-west of Temescal Valley, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of California. The Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr Fire burns 396 miles from Sacramento, and 396 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 396 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 870 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 870 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr 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 Where another fire is recorded

870hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:40am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

4.0miles

is how close the heat has come to El Cerrito 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 Temescal Valley is 2.3 miles, None in the last day.

2.1miles

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

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Copper Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 3.3 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. Eagle Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 3.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Temescal Canyon Rd Ofrp / Temescal Canyon Rd Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 2.4 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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 3.7 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 20% humidity, a 26 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

12 days of record on a day-51 fire

The record here begins at 2:00am on 26 Aug and runs to 2:39am on 9 Sep — 337 hours, 36 readings of heat. The fire is on day 51, so the first 39 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.

Animated map of the Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 115 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 12 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:00am to 3:21am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 3:04am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 2.7 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 2:04pm
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  4. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Holding

    • 5 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 38% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 3:11am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 80% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 5 heat readings
    • Energy 5.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:28am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Sep

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 20% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 3:11am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Thu 3 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu3 Sep

    Holding

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 2:49am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Sep

    Holding

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 3:15am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Sat 5 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat5 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 3:34am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Tue 8 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue8 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:58am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  12. Map for Wed 9 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed9 Seplatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
    • Spread 2.0 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.

  1. Wednesday 26 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 870 hours, and the record still lists it as active.