Burning 1.0 miles east of Desert View Highlands and 1.8 miles west of Palmdale, since Wednesday 26 August.
The fire sits 331 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
3
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 6:56am today
The Lac-303858 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
4hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Saturday, local time.
1readings
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 Desert View Highlands at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Palmdale is 3.1 miles, 3.1 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.
2.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 1.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297622 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303365 Fire started 528 minutes before this one, 2.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303966 Fire started 228 minutes after this one, 5.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307040 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.2 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 14 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 4.4 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 48% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-4 fire
The record here begins at 2:45am on 26 Aug and runs to 2:43am on 29 Aug — 72 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 4, so the first day is 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, 27 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
Wed26 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:45am to 2:45am
Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu27 Aug
Holding
1 heat readings
Heat from 3:02am to 3:02am
Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Sat29 Auglatest
The fiercest day
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.
