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.
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Friday 11 September
First reported
Los Angeles County, California
Burning 1.7 miles north of Avocado Heights and 1.8 miles south-east of El Monte, since Friday 11 September.
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acreage not yet reported
33
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Lac-327637 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Los Angeles County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
33 days
on record — first written down on Friday 11 September at 6:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.064, -118.000lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.3 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-367246 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306348 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366589 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 0.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312194 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 0.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324928 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355018 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.2 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 nine 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.
No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.
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.
Friday 11 September
First reported