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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-297151 Fire

Burning 2.0 miles north-west of Carson and 2.2 miles north of West Carson, since Friday 21 August.

Map of California. The Lac-297151 Fire burns 371 miles from Sacramento, and 371 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 371 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

7

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 7:51am today

The Lac-297151 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-297151 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

4hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:30am on Saturday, local time.

3readings

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

4.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Carson at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 4.8 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to West Carson is 3.0 miles, 3.0 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

3.1miles

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

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.0 miles 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 15 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 18.0 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 92% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-9 fire

The record here begins at 2:56am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:28am on 29 Aug — 168 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 9, so the first 2 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.

Animated map of the Lac-297151 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 59 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:56am to 3:15am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:56am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:39am to 3:21am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 2:20am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 3:41am to 3:41am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Auglatest

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 5.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:48am to 3:28am
    • Spread 3.0 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. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.