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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-353875 Fire

Burning 2.5 miles north-west of Carson and 2.5 miles north of West Carson, since Thursday 1 October.

Map of California. The Lac-353875 Fire burns 371 miles from Sacramento, and 371 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 371 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

13

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-353875 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 5 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-353875 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

5hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:45am on Thursday, local time.

2readings

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

4.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Carson at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 4.8 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to West Carson is 2.9 miles, 3.0 in the last day.

2.8miles

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

32 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298349 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299867 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307339 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313459 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 0.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313781 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317950 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323711 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331884 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 1.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-332316 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334023 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-340163 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 3.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345628 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 2.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345864 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349232 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352563 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357580 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358356 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359549 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360333 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367967 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.8 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 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 18.1 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 23% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Ten days of record on a day-15 fire

The record here begins at 2:07am on 2 Oct and runs to 3:47am on 15 Oct — 314 hours, 21 readings of heat. The fire is on day 15, so the first 5 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-353875 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 107 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 10 days of record

  1. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Oct

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:07am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sat 3 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat3 Oct

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 1.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:28am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. 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 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Oct

    The fiercest day

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 3:36am
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Tue 6 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue6 Oct

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 17% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 3:15am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Oct

    Holding

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 20% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:54am to 3:34am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Thu 8 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu8 Oct

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 3:36am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 3:04am
    • Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:47am
    • Spread 2.7 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. Thursday 1 October

    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.