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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Sunday 23 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
52
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-300290 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.
52 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 1:34pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.106, -118.064lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.4 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 21% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-358631 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368224 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 2.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341299 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 2.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372082 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 2.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343308 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 2.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301056 Fire started 593 minutes after this one, 2.6 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 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.