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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Saturday 19 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
25
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Wildcat 2 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
25 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 19 September at 10:25am local time, starting at 0 acres.
32.912, -116.877lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.9 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 45% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Nitos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 6.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Forester Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 7.1 miles south, and has reached 1 acres. Harbison Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 7.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Fa/Drd Fire started on Friday 11 September, 7.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mutual Aid/Tnr Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 12.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Vf/Drd Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 13.4 miles east, and has reached 1 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.