Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Hilary Fire

Burning 4.4 miles west of Littlerock and 5.1 miles south-east of Palmdale, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of California. The Hilary Fire burns 337 miles from Sacramento, and 337 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 337 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

43

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Hilary Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1049 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1049 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Hilary 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

1049hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:10pm on Tuesday, local time.

98% less

energy in the last 0.9 hours of the record than in the 0.9 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

3.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Littlerock 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 Palmdale is 5.0 miles, None in the last day.

0.6miles

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

16 other fires are burning inside the same view. Colin Fire started on Monday 5 October, 1.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Emma Fire started on Friday 27 March, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.2 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313514 Fire started 321 minutes after this one, 4.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313796 Fire started 665 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 4.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315707 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 3.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-316247 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-328996 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336264 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361305 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Liberty Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 1.1 miles north-east, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm 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 2.6 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-45 fire

The record here begins at 2:27pm on 1 Sep and runs to 4:12pm on 1 Sep — 2 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 45, so the first 44 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 Hilary Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 9 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

Tue 2:00pmTue 4:00pm

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 Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 8 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:27pm to 4:12pm
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Tuesday 1 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 1049 hours, and the record still lists it as active.