Burning 1.8 miles north-west of Leona Valley and 3.9 miles south-east of Elizabeth Lake, since Wednesday 30 September.
The fire sits 323 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
14
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-352524 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 353 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 353 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
353hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:30pm on Wednesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.2miles
is how close the heat has come to Leona Valley 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 Elizabeth Lake is 3.7 miles, None in the last day.
0.8miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Seven other fires are burning inside the same view. Clark Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Grande Fire started on Friday 11 September, 2.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hidden Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-308224 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Milo Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecliff Fire started on Wednesday 14 January, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Trail Fire started on Friday 4 September, 4.4 miles north-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.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Bouquet Fire 6.6 miles south-west at 1,048 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin 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 5.4 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 28% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-16 fire
The record here begins at 4:31pm on 30 Sep and runs to 4:31pm on 30 Sep — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 16, so the first 15 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.
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
Wed 4:00pmWed 4:00pm
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
Wed30 Seplatest
First readings
3 heat readings
Heat from 4:31pm to 4:31pm
Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Wednesday 30 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 353 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
