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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-302672 Fire

Burning 1.8 miles east of Lomita and 1.8 miles south of West Carson, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of California. The Lac-302672 Fire burns 374 miles from Sacramento, and 374 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 374 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-302672 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 319 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 319 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-302672 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

319hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:05am on Friday, local time.

0readings

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

4.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Lomita 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 West Carson is 4.2 miles, None in the last day.

3.1miles

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

18 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started 1095 minutes before this one, 3.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313459 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313781 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323711 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 3.1 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345628 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345864 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 2.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349232 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353875 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363888 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.2 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 20.5 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Six days of record on a day-52 fire

The record here begins at 2:00am on 25 Aug and runs to 2:07am on 2 Oct — 912 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, so the first 46 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-302672 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 307 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 6 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:00am to 2:20am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 2.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:04pm to 2:04pm
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  3. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 75% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:48am to 1:48am
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Thu 3 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu3 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 1:56am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Fri 11 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri11 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:00am to 2:00am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:07am
    • Spread 3.1 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. Tuesday 25 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 319 hours, and the record still lists it as active.