Burning 1.0 miles north-west of Rolling Hills and 1.6 miles west of Rolling Hills Estates, since Thursday 8 October.
The fire sits 374 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
6
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-363888 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.
2.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Rolling Hills at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 2.3 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Rolling Hills Estates is 1.6 miles, 1.7 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.
1.3miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325978 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 4.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360168 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mason Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 2.5 miles 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 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 24.5 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 15% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-8 fire
The record here begins at 2:56am on 9 Oct and runs to 2:43am on 15 Oct — 144 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 6 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, 51 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Fri9 Oct
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu15 Octlatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
Spread 1.3 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.
Thursday 8 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.
