Border 8 Fire
The Border 8 Fire was reported on August 14, 2019 in San Diego County, California and burned 1,507 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 1,507 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 14, 2019
- Personnel
- 31
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 32.573, -116.700.
The incident
- Size
- 1,507 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 14, 2019 at 3:50 PM PDT
- Cause
- Unknown
- Location
- Tecate, Mexico
- County
- San Diego County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Baja California
- Protecting agency
- CDF
- Jurisdiction
- CDF
- Personnel assigned
- 31
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $225,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-CAMVU-011787
- IRWIN identifier
- AD9D4ED6-5F42-4FC2-BF52-D0A59263EDCD
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Potrero, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Potrero, CA6 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Campo, CA14 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Jamul, CA14 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Rancho San Diego, CA18 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Alpine, CA19 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Harbison Canyon, CA19 miles northwest 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 August 17, 2019 at 12:33 PM PDT. Identifier 2019-CAMVU-011787.