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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-299374 Fire

Burning 1.6 miles south-east of Carson and 3.7 miles north-west of Signal Hill, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of California. The Lac-299374 Fire burns 374 miles from Sacramento, and 374 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 374 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

53

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-299374 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 318 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 318 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-299374 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

318hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Friday, local time.

0readings

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

1.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Carson 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 Signal Hill is 3.2 miles, None in the last day.

2.1miles

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

24 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started 165 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started 800 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 0.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313459 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 3.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313781 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323711 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 2.2 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331884 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332316 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334023 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 2.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345628 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345864 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349232 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353875 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357580 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359549 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 2.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360333 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.0 miles north-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 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 16.7 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Eight days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 2:56am on 22 Aug and runs to 2:52am on 2 Oct — 984 hours, 21 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 47 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-299374 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 331 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 8 days of record

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

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 0.9 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

    Flaring up

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 7.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:02am to 2:56am
    • Spread 1.1 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

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 71% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 6 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 9.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:45am to 3:41am
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 5 heat readings
    • Energy 58% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:48am to 3:28am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 88% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 2:11am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Wed 9 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed9 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 3:21am to 3:21am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Octlatest

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:52am
    • Spread 1.8 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.

  1. Saturday 22 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 318 hours, and the record still lists it as active.