The official record as of 10:09am today
The West Anderson Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 10 acres in Cherry County, Nebraska. 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.
55 days
on record — first written down on
Thursday 20 August
at 3:18pm local time, starting at 1 acres.
42.794, -101.030lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 8.8 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 54% humidity, a 24 mph wind out of the north-west.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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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Thursday 20 August
First reported at 1 acres
1 ac
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Sunday 23 August
10 acres on record
10 ac