Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

Whale Fire

Burning 12.9 miles north-east of Mount Laguna and 13.9 miles south of Borrego Springs, since Monday 24 August.

Map of California. The Whale Fire burns 478 miles from Sacramento, and 478 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 478 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

4

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm 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.

4 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.

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.