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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Thursday 15 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:46pm today
The Lac-373293 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.
1 hour
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 8:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.488, -118.140lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 4.0 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 26% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-325665 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 3.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Land Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ranch Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 3.9 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Aliso Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 4.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-362770 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 4.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358020 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.9 miles north, 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 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time.
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.