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Los Angeles County, California

Lac-372070 Fire

Burning 1.7 miles west of Vernon and 2.4 miles north-west of Huntington Park, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of California. The Lac-372070 Fire burns 363 miles from Sacramento, and 363 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 363 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

16

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:37pm today

The Lac-372070 Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-372070 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

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:25pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

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

4.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Vernon at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 4.3 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Huntington Park is 4.7 miles, 4.7 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.

2.6miles

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

23 other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297330 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297929 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299880 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301937 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-309106 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310676 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310759 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311580 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-312776 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-314500 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335283 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 3.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339781 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348885 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-352990 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 3.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353145 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 5.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-353723 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 4.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-356380 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357229 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358652 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360011 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-362729 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 5.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363108 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-371157 Fire started 830 minutes before this one, 1.4 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 31 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 12.8 miles from the fire: 87°F, air at 12% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 1:25pm on 15 Oct and runs to 1:25pm on 15 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Lac-372070 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

Thu 1:00pmThu 1:00pm

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 Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:25pm to 1:25pm
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Thursday 15 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.