Burning 2.4 miles south of Desert View Highlands and 3.0 miles south-west of Palmdale, since Sunday 4 October.
The fire sits 333 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
10
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-358020 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 6 hours ago.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
6hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Thursday, local time.
1readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.5miles
is how close the heat has come to Desert View Highlands at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Palmdale is 3.0 miles, 3.2 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.
1.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
24 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303365 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303858 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 2.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313796 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 2.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315503 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 2.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 2.0 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335707 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 3.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336264 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336513 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 2.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338855 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 4.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-344353 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 4.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350786 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 4.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357758 Fire started 197 minutes before this one, 2.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359920 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 2.1 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361250 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363624 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-364041 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 3.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365287 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365540 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 3.4 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.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Bouquet Fire 15.0 miles west at 1,048 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 2.5 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
Four days of record on a day-12 fire
The record here begins at 2:49am on 4 Oct and runs to 2:43am on 15 Oct — 264 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 12, so the first 8 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.
The whole record, 91 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 4 days of record
Sun4 Oct
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Mon5 Oct
Holding
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu8 Oct
The fiercest day
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:37am to 2:37am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu15 Octlatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 100% down on the day before
Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
Spread 1.1 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.
Sunday 4 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.
