Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Cristo Fire

Burning 10.4 miles north-east of La Crescenta-Montrose and 10.4 miles north of Altadena, since Thursday 20 August.

Map of California. The Cristo Fire burns 347 miles from Sacramento, and 347 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 347 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

55

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Cristo Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

55 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 20 August at 7:22pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.341, -118.110lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.7 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 20% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Utl Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Switzer Fire started 938 minutes after this one, 5.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-362770 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 6.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Aliso Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 6.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-338145 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 7.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dark Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 7.9 miles south-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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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.

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.

  1. Thursday 20 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac