Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Freeway Fire

Burning 4.9 miles north-west of San Fernando and 6.0 miles south of Santa Clarita, since Sunday 27 September.

Map of California. The Freeway Fire burns 336 miles from Sacramento, and 336 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 336 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

17

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Freeway Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 31 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 31 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Freeway 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

31hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

5.6miles

is how close the heat has come to San Fernando 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 Santa Clarita is 6.6 miles, None in the last day.

1.2miles

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

13 other fires are burning inside the same view. Alamo Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Allen Fire started on Friday 11 September, 3.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bethany Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Cate Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dell Fire started 919 minutes before this one, 0.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Domino Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hanger Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Jasper Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 0.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298765 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325633 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 4.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363885 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372063 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 4.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 2.4 miles north, 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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 1.0 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 21% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-19 fire

The record here begins at 2:26am on 14 Oct and runs to 2:26am on 14 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 19, so the first 18 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 Freeway 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

Wed 2:00amWed 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 Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:26am to 2:26am
    • Spread 1.2 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. Sunday 27 September

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 31 hours, and the record still lists it as active.