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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Monday 14 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
30
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 Hungry 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.
30 days
on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 8:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.760, -118.502lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.5 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 36% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-313559 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324253 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338011 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 5.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Cutoff Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 5.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hanger Fire started 1086 minutes after this one, 7.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecliff Fire started on Wednesday 14 January, 9.1 miles south-east, 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 three 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.
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.