Burning 0.3 miles north of Rosemead and 1.8 miles south-east of San Gabriel, since Sunday 23 August.
The fire sits 363 miles from Sacramento.
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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 picture as of 9:09am today
The Lac-301056 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1230 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1230 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1230hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05am on Tuesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
2.6miles
is how close the heat has come to Rosemead 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 San Gabriel is 4.0 miles, None in the last day.
3.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
37 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-300290 Fire started 593 minutes before this one, 2.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302494 Fire started 1434 minutes after this one, 3.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302757 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306348 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 4.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306889 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311309 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312194 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321117 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 3.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324928 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 2.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327517 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327637 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 4.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331792 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332672 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333919 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338661 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 1.2 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341299 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343308 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344163 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 4.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348256 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351110 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 2.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353052 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 3.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355018 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358631 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361210 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361357 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361926 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363766 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366589 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367246 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368224 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372068 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372082 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lincoln Fire started on Friday 2 October, 2.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lucas Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pico Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 3.8 miles south-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 7.4 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-54 fire
The record here begins at 2:37am on 23 Aug and runs to 3:04am on 25 Aug — 48 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 54, 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.
The whole record, 19 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 3 days of record
Sun23 Aug
First readings
2 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:37am to 2:56am
Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Mon24 Aug
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 100% down on the day before
Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Tue25 Auglatest
Flaring up
1 heat readings
Heat from 3:04am to 3:04am
Spread 3.0 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.
Sunday 23 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 1230 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
