Burning 4.5 miles south of Redlands and 5.3 miles south-west of Mentone, since Monday 19 October.
The fire sits 397 miles from Sacramento.
0
acres burned so far
1
hour burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 4:07pm today
The Viper Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 14 hours ago.
No fresh look at this fire for 14 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
14hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:30am on Monday, local time.
1readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
7.4miles
is how close the heat has come to Redlands at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 7.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Mentone is 7.4 miles, 7.4 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.
3.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Kalmia Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 3.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Locust Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Oak Fire started 186 minutes before this one, 1.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Paloma Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.9 miles east, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 72 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 8.6 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 27% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-1 fire
The record here begins at 2:32am on 19 Oct and runs to 2:32am on 19 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Mon 2:00amMon 2:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Mon19 Octlatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Monday 19 October
First reported
Monday 19 October
0 acres on record
0 ac
Monday 19 October
Grew to 0 acres
0 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 14 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
