Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-358956 Fire

Burning 4.9 miles east of Lancaster and 8.3 miles north-east of Quartz Hill, since Monday 5 October.

Map of California. The Lac-358956 Fire burns 325 miles from Sacramento, and 325 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 325 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 official record as of 9:09am today

The Lac-358956 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.

10 days

on record — first written down on Monday 5 October at 7:31am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.719, -118.095lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.6 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-303623 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298373 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 0.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-327053 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 1.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350855 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367292 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 1.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302408 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.2 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 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.

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.

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. Monday 5 October

    First reported