Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Zebra Fire

Burning 1.5 miles north of Azusa and 2.7 miles east of Duarte, since Monday 13 July.

Map of California. The Zebra Fire burns 363 miles from Sacramento, and 363 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 363 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

93

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:45pm today

The Zebra Fire is still building. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Zebra Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

4hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25pm on Thursday, local time.

284% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

1.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Azusa at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Duarte is 2.3 miles, 2.3 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

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.

18 other fires are burning inside the same view. Ava Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Henry Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303969 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 2.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306430 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 3.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-309642 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 2.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312522 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317013 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-322131 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 2.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324946 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344644 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348683 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 2.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348777 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 2.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354515 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355182 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363484 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 2.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Morris Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Peak Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 0.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. San Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 2.0 miles north-east, 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 170 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

0.4 miles north-west of the recorded point

7 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 3.4 miles from the fire: 91°F, air at 12% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-95 fire

The record here begins at 1:25pm on 15 Oct and runs to 2:25pm on 15 Oct — 1 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 95, so the first 94 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.

Animated map of the Zebra Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
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

Thu 1:00pmThu 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

  1. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 7 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:25pm to 2:25pm
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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.

  1. Monday 13 July

    First reported

  2. Monday 28 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

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 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.