Deer Fire
The Deer Fire was reported on July 1, 2016 in Kern County, California and burned 1,785 acres. It is 98 percent contained.
- Size
- 1,785 acres
- Contained
- 98%
- Discovered
- July 1, 2016
- Personnel
- 95
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 35.212, -118.738.
The incident
- Size
- 1,785 acres
- Containment
- 98%
- Discovered
- July 1, 2016 at 2:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Wildfire
- County
- Kern County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Arvin
- Protecting agency
- C&L
- Personnel assigned
- 95
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $5,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-CAKRN-024109
- IRWIN identifier
- 8FF1A2CD-487B-4A68-B53D-E5FE2D669798
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Arvin, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Arvin, CA5 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Bear Valley Springs, CA7 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Stallion Springs, CA10 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Weedpatch, CA10 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Lamont, CA10 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Golden Hills, CA15 miles east of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated July 8, 2016 at 12:42 PM PDT. Identifier 2016-CAKRN-024109.