The Camp Fire ignited on November 8, 2018 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Butte County, California. The first 24 hours were characterized by a fast-moving fire with initial spread driven by high winds up to 22 m/s (50 mi/h) and long-range spotting up to 6.3 km (3.9 mi) into the community. The fire quickly impacted the communities of Concow, Paradise, and Magalia. The Camp Fire became the most destructive and deadly fire in California history, with over 18000 destroyed structures, 700 damaged structures, and 85 fatalities.

The PerfLoc Prize Competition (https://perfloc.nist.gov) was developed by NIST during 2015-2017 and was run during 2017-2018. The Competition was concluded with a single winner on May 16, 2018. However, NIST believes the data collected for the PerfLoc Competition is still of value to the R&D community, because there is still room to develop better signal processing and data fusion algorithms that would fuse various types of smartphone data collected in this project to develop indoor localization apps with higher localization accuracy.