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 12 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
33
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 2:20am today
The Woods Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Kern 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.
33 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 9:15am local time.
35.130, -119.438lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 19.1 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 20% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Gardner Fire started on Sunday 5 July, 1.4 miles east, and has reached 1 acres. Petrol Fire started on Friday 4 September, 1.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. North Fire started on Monday 13 July, 3.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Cat Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 5.8 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Hillcrest Fire started on Monday 31 August, 10.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hudson Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 11.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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.