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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-302310 Fire

Burning 0.0 miles south of Del Aire and 1.6 miles south-west of Lennox, since Monday 24 August.

Map of California. The Lac-302310 Fire burns 365 miles from Sacramento, and 365 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 365 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

51

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-302310 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 247 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 247 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-302310 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

247hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:55am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

1.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Del Aire 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 Lennox is 2.7 miles, None in the last day.

2.4miles

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

47 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297581 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298299 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298349 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299236 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299867 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300319 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301770 Fire started 408 minutes before this one, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302976 Fire started 907 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303072 Fire started 981 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307339 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307701 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-308327 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 3.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313648 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325340 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329523 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 3.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329527 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 2.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336002 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 2.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-337843 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 1.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-340163 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-342558 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 4.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343126 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344661 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345734 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349284 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349291 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349670 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 2.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351769 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 2.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352563 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 1.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352880 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352981 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353731 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 2.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354780 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355100 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355853 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 2.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-356630 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358356 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359967 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361202 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361272 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 0.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361745 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-362345 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-362373 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363061 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366704 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 2.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367550 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 2.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367967 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368137 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.2 miles north, 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 14.6 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 18% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

Five days of record on a day-53 fire

The record here begins at 4:30am on 5 Sep and runs to 1:56am on 5 Oct — 717 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 53, so the first 48 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-302310 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 242 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 5 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 5 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat5 Sep

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 4:30am to 4:30am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Fri 11 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri11 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:45am to 2:45am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Sun 13 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun13 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 5.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:04am
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Wed 30 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed30 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 40% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:04pm to 2:04pm
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  5. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 1:56am
    • Spread 2.4 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. Monday 24 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 247 hours, and the record still lists it as active.