Burning 2.6 miles east of Lake Mathews and 2.7 miles south-west of Mead Valley, since Tuesday 25 August.
The fire sits 402 miles from Sacramento.
76
acres burned so far
3
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The Wood Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 72 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 72 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
72hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25pm on Tuesday, local time.
72% less
energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record
than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was
cooler when it was last seen.
3.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Lake Mathews at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Mead Valley is 2.6 miles, None in the last day.
0.6miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Kramer Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.1 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Mtz/Rru/Wood Fire started 29 minutes after this one, 0.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Wood - Leave Open Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 77 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 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 45 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 4.6 miles from the fire: 103°F, air at 21% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-4 fire
The record here begins at 1:19pm on 25 Aug and runs to 2:23pm on 25 Aug — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 4, so the first 3 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 8 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Tue 1:00pmTue 2:00pm
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Tue25 Auglatest
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 1:19pm to 2:23pm
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 76 now. Nothing has looked at it for 72 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
