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San Luis Obispo County, California

Tule Fire

Burning 25.8 miles south-east of Shandon and 26.4 miles west of McKittrick, since Monday 7 September.

Map of California. The Tule Fire burns 234 miles from Sacramento, and 234 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 234 miles from Sacramento.

20

acres burned so far

37

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Tule Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 20 acres in San Luis Obispo 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.

37 days

on record — first written down on Monday 7 September at 1:05pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.370, -120.085lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.9 miles from the fire: 77°F, air at 17% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Rudnick Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.2 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Belmont Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 6.1 miles south-east, and has reached 137 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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. Monday 7 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 7 September

    3 acres on record

    3 ac
  3. Monday 7 September

    Grew to 20 acres

    20 ac