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.
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Tuesday 15 September
First reported
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Tuesday 15 September
0 acres on record
0 ac