Plaskett Fire map — Big Sur, and where Highway 1 is shut

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Plaskett Fire map — Bill Alderson, placenameguide.com. Perimeter mapped 30 Aug 15:50 — 17 h ago, republished unchanged 1x since. Sources: NIFC/WFIGS interagency perimeter, Cal OES evacuation zones, Caltrans Lane Closure System, NASA VIIRS. Free to reuse with credit.

Changed in the last 48 hours

30 Aug 15:50Plaskett Fire perimeter re-flown (IR Image Interpretation)
30 Aug 15:37Timber Fire perimeter re-flown (IR Image Interpretation)
30 Aug 15:03Plaskett Fire 8,241 → 15,478 acres (CAL FIRE reported)
30 Aug 13:33Highway 1 closure south limit moved, Post Mile 2.23 → 0.0
30 Aug 6:25Timber Fire: new note on CAL FIRE reverted
30 Aug 6:22Plaskett Fire containment 0% → 1%

Highway 1 closed — MM 0.0 to MM 56.1
burned, as last mapped
Plaskett Cabin
back-country camp, inside the mapped perimeter
back-country camp, outside it — none of them is somewhere to go
old Los Burros mining sites — approximate, and nothing there now
satellite heat, most recent pass — each cell is one detection, about 375 m across
Evacuation Order
Evacuation Warning

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Four public sources on one picture: the federal interagency perimeter, the Sheriff's evacuation zones through Cal OES, Caltrans' closed span of Highway 1, and the satellite's most recent thermal detections. None of them publishes the other three. The perimeter and the satellite are separate observations taken at different times, and each carries its own stamp above — on this fire the newer of the two has more than once been the satellite.