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
55
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Lac-296494 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1254 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1254 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1254hours
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.
31 other fires are burning inside the same view. Hilary Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 0.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313796 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 2.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315503 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315707 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-316247 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 4.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329110 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 4.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335707 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336264 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336513 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338855 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344353 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 2.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350786 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 2.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353770 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357758 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358020 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359920 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 0.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361250 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363624 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-364041 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 2.2 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365287 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365540 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 2.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-371289 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 3.7 miles north, 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 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 3.0 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-57 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 57, so the first 55 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
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.
Thursday 20 August
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 1254 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
