Burning 1.0 miles south-west of Palmdale and 2.2 miles east of Desert View Highlands, since Thursday 20 August.
The fire sits 332 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
8
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 6:56am today
The Lac-296494 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 124 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 124 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
124hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:40am on Monday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.0miles
is how close the heat has come to Palmdale 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 Desert View Highlands is 1.5 miles, None in the last day.
2.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-303365 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303858 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 1.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Liberty Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 4.6 miles south-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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 14 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 3.0 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 48% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-10 fire
The record here begins at 2:56am on 23 Aug and runs to 2:39am on 24 Aug — 24 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 10, so the first 8 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.
The whole record, 31 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
Sun 2:00amMon 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 2 days of record
Sun23 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Mon24 Auglatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 100% down on the day before
Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 124 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
