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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Friday 21 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
54
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 Lac-298044 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.
54 days
on record — first written down on Friday 21 August at 10:13pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.953, -118.043lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.8 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-334048 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 0.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360750 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300894 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354758 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 2.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298711 Fire started 835 minutes after this one, 2.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313512 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.6 miles north-west, 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 ten times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.