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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-332672 Fire

Burning 0.6 miles north-east of Montebello and 1.8 miles south of South San Gabriel, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of California. The Lac-332672 Fire burns 366 miles from Sacramento, and 366 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 366 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

29

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-332672 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 6 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-332672 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 3:05am on Thursday, local time.

2readings

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

0.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Montebello at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to South San Gabriel is 0.9 miles, 0.9 in the last day.

1.4miles

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

53 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-296619 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297484 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 2.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297929 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298711 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298729 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299582 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299880 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300894 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301056 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302494 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302757 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302946 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 2.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306889 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310676 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 4.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310759 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 4.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311309 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311580 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 4.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313512 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 3.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-314500 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321117 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-324976 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 3.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 1.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327517 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 3.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331792 Fire started 1027 minutes before this one, 3.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332431 Fire started 204 minutes before this one, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333919 Fire started 1395 minutes after this one, 3.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334949 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 3.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335283 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 4.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338661 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339850 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341299 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344163 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345163 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348256 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 4.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348885 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351110 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353052 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 3.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-354758 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358652 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359413 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360011 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360411 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360750 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-362490 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363644 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363850 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 3.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 3.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372068 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 4.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372082 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lincoln Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lucas Fire started on Friday 25 September, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pico Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 3.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. York Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 3.5 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 6.1 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-31 fire

The record here begins at 2:13am on 18 Sep and runs to 3:04am on 15 Oct — 649 hours, 28 readings of heat. The fire is on day 31, so the first 13 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-332672 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 219 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 Fri 18 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri18 Sep

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:13am to 3:11am
    • Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sat 19 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat19 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Tue 22 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue22 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:37am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Sep

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Thu 24 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu24 Sep

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 1:55pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  6. Map for Fri 25 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri25 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:39am to 2:39am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. 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 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Wed 30 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed30 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Sat 3 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat3 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 2.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:11am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  12. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  13. Map for Tue 6 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue6 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  14. Map for Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:34am to 3:34am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  15. Map for Thu 8 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu8 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:37am to 2:37am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  16. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:20am to 2:56am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  17. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Oct

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 3:04am
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  18. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:04am
    • Spread 1.0 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. Tuesday 15 September

    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.