Burning 2.3 miles north-west of Carson and 2.4 miles north of West Carson, since Tuesday 1 September.
The fire sits 371 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
43
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-313459 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 787 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 787 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
787hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:45pm on Saturday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.0miles
is how close the heat has come to Carson 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 West Carson is 1.7 miles, None in the last day.
3.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
29 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298349 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313781 Fire started 370 minutes after this one, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317950 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323711 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331884 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332316 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334023 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-340163 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345628 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 2.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345864 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349232 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353875 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357580 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358356 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359549 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360333 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367967 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.9 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 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 18.1 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-45 fire
The record here begins at 1:48am on 1 Sep and runs to 1:46pm on 12 Sep — 276 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 45, so the first 43 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, 95 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Tue1 Sep
First readings
3 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 1:48am to 3:28am
Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Sat12 Seplatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Energy 50% down on the day before
Heat from 1:46pm to 1:46pm
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Tuesday 1 September
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 787 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
