Burning 1.9 miles south-west of South El Monte and 2.0 miles north-west of Rose Hills, since Monday 31 August.
The fire sits 366 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
45
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-311309 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 847 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 847 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
847hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.3miles
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 Rose Hills is 4.0 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.
54 other fires are burning inside the same view. Ethan Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 4.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-296619 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297484 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298711 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298729 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299582 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300894 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301056 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302494 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302757 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302946 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306348 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 3.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306889 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312194 Fire started 714 minutes after this one, 3.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313512 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 3.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321117 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324928 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 0.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327517 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 1.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327637 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 4.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331792 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 1.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332672 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333919 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 1.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338661 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339850 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341299 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343308 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 5.0 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-345163 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 4.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348256 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 3.1 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, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353052 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354758 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357751 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358631 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359413 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360411 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360750 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361210 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361357 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 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, 3.2 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, 4.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367246 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368224 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372068 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 3.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372082 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lincoln Fire started on Friday 2 October, 0.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lucas Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.2 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, 2.2 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 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 4.5 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
Eight days of record on a day-46 fire
The record here begins at 2:52am on 31 Aug and runs to 2:20am on 10 Sep — 240 hours, 13 readings of heat. The fire is on day 46, so the first 38 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.
The whole record, 83 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 8 days of record
Mon31 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Wed2 Sep
Holding
2 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:13am to 2:49am
Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu3 Sep
Holding
1 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times 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
Fri4 Sep
Holding
2 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:11am to 2:32am
Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Sat5 Sep
Holding
2 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:58am to 3:34am
Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Tue8 Sep
Holding
2 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:37am to 2:56am
Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu10 Seplatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Energy 1.0 times the day before
Heat from 2:20am to 2:20am
Spread 2.3 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.
Monday 31 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 847 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
