Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-373651 Fire

Burning 0.4 miles west of El Monte and 1.9 miles north of South El Monte, since Friday 16 October.

Map of California. The Lac-373651 Fire burns 364 miles from Sacramento, and 364 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 364 miles from Sacramento.

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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 7:03am today

The Lac-373651 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 Friday 16 October at 5:56am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.076, -118.036lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.1 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 20% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-306889 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-368224 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-372068 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 0.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348256 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 0.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361210 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361357 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.0 miles south-east, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 15 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. Friday 16 October

    First reported