San Diego County, California
Burning 12.9 miles north-east of Mount Laguna and 13.9 miles south of Borrego Springs, since Monday 24 August.
0
acres burned so far
51
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Whale Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Diego 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.
51 days
on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 4:06pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.041, -116.334lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 12.4 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 28% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Huecos Fire started on Sunday 9 August, 13.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sdu/Banner 2 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 15.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Banner 2 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 15.5 miles 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm 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.
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 24 August
First reported
Monday 24 August
0 acres on record
0 acMonday 24 August
Grew to 0 acres
0 ac