Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-338855 Fire

Burning 2.0 miles north-west of Palmdale and 2.5 miles north-east of Desert View Highlands, since Sunday 20 September.

Map of California. The Lac-338855 Fire burns 330 miles from Sacramento, and 330 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 330 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

24

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-338855 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.

24 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 20 September at 9:25am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.616, -118.124lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-350786 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363624 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-371289 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 1.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335707 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 1.2 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344353 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-364041 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.5 miles south-west, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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.

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. Sunday 20 September

    First reported