Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-376125 Fire

Burning 2.8 miles north-east of Lancaster and 6.5 miles north-east of Quartz Hill, since Saturday 17 October.

Map of California. The Lac-376125 Fire burns 323 miles from Sacramento, and 323 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 323 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 9:48pm today

The Lac-376125 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.

40 minutes

on record — first written down on Saturday 17 October at 9:09pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.722, -118.141lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 13.0 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 28% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-301035 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-348853 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 0.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306759 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315689 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-318192 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 0.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-322194 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 0.6 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 29 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. Saturday 17 October

    First reported