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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Saturday 3 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
12
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 Carter 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.
12 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 3 October at 6:57pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.803, -118.877lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.7 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 27% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-341462 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 0.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Colin Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 1.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Golden Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ridge Fire started on Friday 7 August, 2.8 miles east, and has reached 1,134 acres with 6 people assigned. Carlos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Trail Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.8 miles west, and has reached 0 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 two 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.