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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-302757 Fire

Burning 1.7 miles south-west of South El Monte and 2.0 miles south-east of South San Gabriel, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of California. The Lac-302757 Fire burns 366 miles from Sacramento, and 366 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 366 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-302757 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1086 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1086 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-302757 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

1086hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

3.4miles

is how close the heat has come to South El Monte 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 South San Gabriel is 1.0 miles, None in the last day.

2.3miles

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

52 other fires are burning inside the same view. Ethan Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 5.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-296619 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297484 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298711 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298729 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299582 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300894 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301056 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302494 Fire started 530 minutes before this one, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302946 Fire started 157 minutes after this one, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306348 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 3.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306889 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311309 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 0.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312194 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313512 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321117 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324928 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327517 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 1.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327637 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331792 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 1.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332672 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333919 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 1.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338661 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341299 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 2.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343308 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 4.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344163 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 4.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348256 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 3.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351110 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351366 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 4.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353052 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 1.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354758 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357751 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358631 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359413 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360411 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360750 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361210 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361357 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361926 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-362490 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363766 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 3.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366589 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367246 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368224 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 1.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372068 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 3.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372082 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 2.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lincoln Fire started on Friday 2 October, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lucas Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pico Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 1.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. York Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 2.4 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 4.6 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-52 fire

The record here begins at 3:04am on 25 Aug and runs to 2:52am on 31 Aug — 144 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, 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-302757 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 50 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 Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 3:04am to 3:04am
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:45am to 2:45am
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Auglatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.1 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 1086 hours, and the record still lists it as active.