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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-370878 Fire

Burning 3.8 miles west of Beverly Hills and 4.0 miles north-east of Santa Monica, since Wednesday 14 October.

Map of California. The Lac-370878 Fire burns 353 miles from Sacramento, and 353 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 353 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

30

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Lac-370878 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 30 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 30 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-370878 Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

30hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

3.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Beverly Hills at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Santa Monica is 3.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Getty Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am 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 5.3 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 15% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-2 fire

The record here begins at 3:04am on 14 Oct and runs to 3:21am on 14 Oct — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 2, so the first day is missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Lac-370878 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 3:00amWed 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:04am to 3:21am
    • Spread 0.2 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.

  1. Wednesday 14 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 30 hours, and the record still lists it as active.