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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-341462 Fire

Burning 3.2 miles south-east of Lebec and 4.5 miles east of Frazier Park, since Tuesday 22 September.

Map of California. The Lac-341462 Fire burns 297 miles from Sacramento, and 297 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 297 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

22

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-341462 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 485 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 485 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-341462 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

485hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:00am on Friday, local time.

0readings

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

2.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Lebec 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 Frazier Park is 4.0 miles, None in the last day.

0.6miles

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

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Carlos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Carter Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 0.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Colin Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 1.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Golden Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ridge Fire started on Friday 7 August, 2.8 miles east, and has reached 1,134 acres with 6 people assigned. Trail Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 7.7 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 21% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-24 fire

The record here begins at 3:58am on 25 Sep and runs to 3:58am on 25 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 24, so the first 23 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Lac-341462 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Fri 3:00amFri 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

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 22 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 485 hours, and the record still lists it as active.