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.

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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-299590 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 140 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 140 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

140hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:40pm on Friday, local time.

105% more

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

1.5miles

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 2.0 miles, None in the last day.

1.1miles

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

14 other fires are burning inside the same view. Bar Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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. Lac-310842 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315013 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-316313 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317623 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 4.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325409 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 4.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333365 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 5.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336252 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-340111 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.4 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357434 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357751 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 5.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Margo Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 4.8 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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: 74°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 2:20am on 22 Aug and runs to 1:40pm on 9 Oct — 1163 hours, 15 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 51 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-299590 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 390 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 4 days of record

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

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 5 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:20am to 2:16pm
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 57% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 3:34am
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Thu 8 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu8 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:54am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Octlatest

    Flaring up

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 1:40pm
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon

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 140 hours, and the record still lists it as active.