Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Zzcoal Fire

Burning 2.7 miles south-east of Coalinga and 11.8 miles north-west of Avenal, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of California. The Zzcoal Fire burns 182 miles from Sacramento, and 182 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 182 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Zzcoal Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

6 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 8 October at 9:53am local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.105, -120.307lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 19% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lost Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Elm Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 4.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Karen Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 4.6 miles north-west, and has reached 2 acres. Jayne Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 5.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rick Fire started on Friday 9 October, 7.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Palm Fire started on Friday 28 August, 8.1 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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.

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. Thursday 8 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 8 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac