The official record as of 9:09am today
The Wheeler Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Inyo 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.
65 days
on record — first written down on
Monday 10 August
at 2:50pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
37.426, -118.663lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.6 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 18% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the east.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Highway Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 5.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 6.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Transfer Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 9.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Convict Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 15.4 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.
No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.
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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Monday 10 August
First reported
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Saturday 26 September
0 acres on record
0 ac