Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-366024 Fire

Burning 2.2 miles east of Lancaster and 5.7 miles north-east of Quartz Hill, since Saturday 10 October.

Map of California. The Lac-366024 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

5

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-366024 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.

5 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 10 October at 6:56am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.704, -118.138lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.7 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 19% humidity, a 17 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-339581 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 0.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338114 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 0.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310790 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 0.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313932 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299783 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-308270 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 1.0 miles south, 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. Saturday 10 October

    First reported