Fresno County, California
Burning 2.7 miles east of Squaw Valley and 11.0 miles west of Wilsonia, since Monday 7 September.
0
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 Wax Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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 7:52pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
36.725, -119.155lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.8 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 20% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lap Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Creek Sand_Creek Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mistle Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Valley Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Elwood Rd Yokuts_Valley Fire started on Friday 9 October, 4.8 miles north-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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm 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.
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 7 September
First reported
Monday 7 September
0 acres on record
0 ac