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Mariposa County, California

Tiptop Fire

Burning 4.0 miles east of Bootjack and 6.9 miles north-west of Nipinnawasee, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of California. The Tiptop Fire burns 117 miles from Sacramento, and 117 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 117 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Tiptop Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mariposa 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.

49 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 6:01pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.478, -119.811lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.8 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 21% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Boyer Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kemble Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Garage Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 5.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Carleton Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 5.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Pilot Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 6.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Colorado Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 9.2 miles north-west, and has reached 233 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 11:00am 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.

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