Salt Fire
The Salt Fire was reported on August 18, 2020 in Calaveras County, California and burned 1,789 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 1,789 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 18, 2020
- Personnel
- 9
Map
Perimeter mapped date not reported, 1,750 acres (hand sketch). Point of origin 38.026, -120.761.
The incident
- Size
- 1,789 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 18, 2020 at 2:47 PM PDT
- Cause
- Unknown
- Location
- South of Salt Springs Valley Reservoir and north of the Diamond XX housing comm
- County
- Calaveras County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Copperopolis
- Protecting agency
- CDF
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 9
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $889,843
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-CATCU-009353
- IRWIN identifier
- 9E8E9A8D-BAC5-416B-9386-41F803BF52C3
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Copperopolis, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Copperopolis, CA7 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Rancho Calaveras, CA9 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Valley Springs, CA12 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Angels Camp, CA12 miles east of the fire’s origin
- San Andreas, CA13 miles north of the fire’s origin
- East Oakdale, CA17 miles south 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 24, 2020 at 4:51 PM PDT. Identifier 2020-CATCU-009353.