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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Thursday 22 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 4:45pm today
The Well Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Kern 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.
1 hour
on record — first written down on Thursday 22 October at 3:42pm local time.
35.478, -119.020lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 22.2 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 53% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Gran Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Amber Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 0.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ca-Krn Amber Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 0.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Carrier Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 1.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Sister Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Junction Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 55 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.