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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-313781 Fire

Burning 2.4 miles north-west of Carson and 2.5 miles north of West Carson, since Wednesday 2 September.

Map of California. The Lac-313781 Fire burns 371 miles from Sacramento, and 371 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
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-313781 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 366 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 366 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-313781 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

366hours

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

32 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298349 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299867 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.6 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-307339 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313459 Fire started 370 minutes before this one, 0.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317950 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323711 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331884 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 1.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332316 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334023 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.6 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, 3.2 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, 1.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349232 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352563 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353875 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 0.0 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, 3.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359549 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360333 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367967 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.8 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

18 days of record on a day-44 fire

The record here begins at 1:48am on 1 Sep and runs to 2:43am on 30 Sep — 697 hours, 49 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 26 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-313781 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 235 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 18 days of record

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

    Tue1 Sep

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:48am to 3:28am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Sep

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 2:49am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Thu 3 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu3 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:36am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:51am to 3:51am
    • Spread 2.6 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

    Flaring up

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 3.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:02am to 3:43am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Thu 10 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu10 Sep

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 29% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 3:41am
    • Spread 2.8 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

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 20% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:00am to 3:41am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Tue 15 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue15 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 2:05am
    • Spread 2.7 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

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 2.6 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

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Sun 20 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun20 Sep

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 1.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 2:32am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  12. Map for Tue 22 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue22 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:54am to 2:39am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  13. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Sep

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 3:15am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  14. Map for Thu 24 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu24 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 2.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:02am to 1:55pm
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  15. Map for Fri 25 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri25 Sep

    Holding

    • 5 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.4 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:41am to 3:21am
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  16. Map for Mon 28 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon28 Sep

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 1.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 1:46pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  17. Map for Tue 29 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue29 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 56% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  18. Map for Wed 30 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed30 Seplatest

    Today so far

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 1.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:48am to 2:43am
    • Spread 2.8 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 2 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 366 hours, and the record still lists it as active.