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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Tuesday 6 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
8
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Tice Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
8 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 6 October at 6:02pm local time.
35.592, -118.445lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.4 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 13% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rocky Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. River Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Auxiliary Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 3.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Hogye Fire started 112 minutes before this one, 4.2 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Yankee Fire started on Thursday 30 April, 4.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Cyrus Fire started on Friday 9 October, 7.5 miles north, and has reached 543 acres with 12 people assigned. 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.
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.