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.
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Friday 2 October
First reported
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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 official record as of 9:09am today
The Lac-354515 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.
13 days
on record — first written down on Friday 2 October at 6:56am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.134, -117.957lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 0.8 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-355182 Fire started 553 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-317013 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 0.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-309642 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 0.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312522 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 0.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303969 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-342584 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 1.6 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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.