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Monterey County, California

Timber Fire

Burning 19.7 miles south of Carmel Valley Village and 25.2 miles south-west of Gonzales, since Saturday 8 August.

Map of California. The Timber Fire burns 163 miles from Sacramento, and 163 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 163 miles from Sacramento.

23,343

acres burned so far — about 36 square miles

20

days burning so far

21%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Timber Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 23,343 acres in Monterey 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.

21% held

21% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

1,228people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

20 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 8 August at 8:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 2 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

36.216, -121.718lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.