Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-299590 Fire

Burning 0.8 miles south-east of West Covina and 1.7 miles east of Valinda, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of California. The Lac-299590 Fire burns 370 miles from Sacramento, and 370 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 370 miles from Sacramento.

acreage not yet reported

6

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:56am today

The Lac-299590 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 161 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 161 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-299590 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

161hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:15pm on Saturday, local time.

34% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

1.7miles

is how close the heat has come to West Covina 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 Valinda is 2.1 miles, None in the last day.

1.0miles

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

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-299610 Fire started 28 minutes after this one, 0.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303234 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.8 miles south-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 five 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 6.1 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 82% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-8 fire

The record here begins at 2:20am on 22 Aug and runs to 2:16pm on 22 Aug — 12 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 7 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.

Animated map of the Lac-299590 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 19 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

Sat 2:00amSat 2:00pm

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 1 day of record

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 161 hours, and the record still lists it as active.