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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-306430 Fire

Burning 1.3 miles north-west of Vincent and 1.7 miles east of Irwindale, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of California. The Lac-306430 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

48

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-306430 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 6 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-306430 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

6hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Thursday, local time.

1readings

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

1.0miles

is how close the heat has come to Vincent at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.2 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Irwindale is 2.1 miles, 2.3 in the last day.

0.6miles

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

28 other fires are burning inside the same view. Ava Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 3.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Henry Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297529 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 2.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299610 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300665 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303969 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 1.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-309642 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 1.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312522 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 1.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313203 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317013 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317623 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 4.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-322131 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324928 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338869 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-342584 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 2.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344644 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348683 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 2.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348707 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 2.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348777 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354118 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 2.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354515 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355018 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355182 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357434 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357921 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363484 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365332 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 3.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Zebra Fire started on Monday 13 July, 3.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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 1.1 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

19 days of record on a day-50 fire

The record here begins at 2:43am on 29 Aug and runs to 2:43am on 15 Oct — 1128 hours, 26 readings of heat. The fire is on day 50, so the first 31 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-306430 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 379 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 19 days of record

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

    Sat29 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 2:05am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:09am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 3:11am to 3:11am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Tue 8 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue8 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. 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 2:45am to 2:45am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Sat 12 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat12 Sep

    The fiercest day

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 2.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 3:02am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Mon 14 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon14 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Fri 18 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri18 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 2.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 3:11am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Sat 19 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat19 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:20am to 2:56am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  12. Map for Thu 24 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu24 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:58am to 2:58am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  13. Map for Sat 26 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat26 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:20am to 3:04am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  14. Map for Tue 29 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue29 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:04am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  15. Map for Wed 30 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed30 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  16. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  17. Map for Sat 3 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat3 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  18. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 2:26am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  19. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.6 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. Thursday 27 August

    First reported

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.