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 26 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
18
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Dark 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.
18 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 26 September at 3:03pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.252, -118.197lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.8 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 20% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-338145 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Switzer Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Tujunga Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Utl Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Pipe Fire started on Thursday 13 August, 5.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Valley Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 6.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am 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.