Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Danny Fire

Burning 8.6 miles south-east of Lebec and 9.9 miles south-east of Frazier Park, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of California. The Danny Fire burns 302 miles from Sacramento, and 302 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 302 miles from Sacramento.

150

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Danny Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 150 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 150 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Danny Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

150hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:55am on Friday, local time.

47% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

9.6miles

is how close the heat has come to Lebec at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Frazier Park is 10.6 miles, None in the last day.

1.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Seven other fires are burning inside the same view. Colin Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Golden Fire started on Friday 25 September, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hawk Fire started 1407 minutes before this one, 3.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302653 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367707 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lake Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ridge Fire started on Friday 7 August, 3.2 miles north-west, and has reached 1,134 acres with 6 people assigned. 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 moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 12.9 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 23% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-8 fire

The record here begins at 2:20am on 9 Oct and runs to 2:56am on 9 Oct — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 7 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Danny Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Fri 2:00amFri 2:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:20am to 2:56am
    • Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 8 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 8 October

    Revised to 150 acres — containment 13%, 245 personnel

    150 ac · 13% held · 245 crew

  3. Friday 9 October

    Containment 56% — 427 personnel

    150 ac · 56% held · 427 crew

  4. Saturday 10 October

    Containment 96% — 11 personnel

    150 ac · 96% held · 11 crew

  5. Tuesday 13 October

    Containment 100% — 5 personnel

    150 ac · 100% held · 5 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 5 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 150 now. Nothing has looked at it for 150 hours, and the record still lists it as active.