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.
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Wednesday 14 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
17
hours 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-371632 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.
17 hours
on record — first written down on Wednesday 14 October at 4:32pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.570, -118.688lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.0 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 17% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Gorman Fire started on Monday 8 June, 0.0 miles south-west, and has reached 1 acres. Club Fire started on Friday 31 July, 0.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-357251 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Templin Fire started on Wednesday 28 January, 0.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Town Fire started 1 minutes after this one, 0.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Violin Fire started on Wednesday 22 April, 1.2 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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.