5-3 Fire (CA)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
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- Complex
- Cinder Complex
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Burning for 20 days across Inyo, California, the active 5-3 Fire has maintained an approximate average daily growth of 37 acres per day on Federal land managed by the BLM. The fire has expanded to encompass 744 acres within a regional landscape where the typical fire season spans from June to October.
This incident unfolds during a broader national fire year that has seen 2,902,022 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a total that sits 47 percent below the two-decade average.
Response efforts for the 5-3 Fire are currently being managed under a Type 3 Incident complexity.
In context
This wildfire burned in California for 20 days. In total it burned about 744 acres — around 3.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,021,962 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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