How the record has moved
Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.
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Tuesday 6 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
9
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 2:20am today
The Baker Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Los Angeles County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
9 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 6 October at 11:43am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.500, -118.627lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.4 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 17% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Cory Fire started on Friday 4 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Maple Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 0.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Town Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 5.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-357251 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 5.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Templin Fire started on Wednesday 28 January, 5.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Gorman Fire started on Monday 8 June, 5.9 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.