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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-303858 Fire

Burning 1.0 miles east of Desert View Highlands and 1.8 miles west of Palmdale, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of California. The Lac-303858 Fire burns 331 miles from Sacramento, and 331 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 331 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

50

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-303858 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 654 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 654 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-303858 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

654hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Friday, 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 Desert View Highlands 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 Palmdale is 3.0 miles, None in the last day.

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.

38 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. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 2.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315503 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 1.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329110 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 3.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 1.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332998 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333042 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335707 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336264 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 2.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336513 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 0.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338855 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344353 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 0.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349831 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 4.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350786 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353770 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 3.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357758 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358020 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358039 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358510 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358514 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359920 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 1.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361250 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 0.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363624 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-364041 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365287 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 0.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365540 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366237 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366253 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-370530 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-371289 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 2.6 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

12 days of record on a day-51 fire

The record here begins at 2:45am on 26 Aug and runs to 2:49am on 18 Sep — 552 hours, 13 readings of heat. The fire is on day 51, so the first 39 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-303858 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 187 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 12 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:45am to 2:45am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  3. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    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
  4. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:09am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Sun 6 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun6 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:37am
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Fri 11 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri11 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:45am to 2:45am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Sun 13 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun13 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Mon 14 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon14 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Wed 16 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed16 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Thu 17 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu17 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  12. Map for Fri 18 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri18 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 2.2 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. Wednesday 26 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 654 hours, and the record still lists it as active.