Awatchfire

Tulare County, California

Vega Fire

Burning 2.9 miles south of Three Rivers and 8.2 miles east of Lemon Cove, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of California. The Vega Fire burns 206 miles from Sacramento, and 206 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 206 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

29

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Vega Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tulare 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.

29 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 15 September at 9:45pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.398, -118.882lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.2 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 19% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Eden Creek Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 8.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Cahoon Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 11.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Corner Creek Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 12.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Durango Fire started on Monday 5 October, 14.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Swan Fire started on Monday 31 August, 14.8 miles south-west, 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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. Tuesday 15 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 15 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac