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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Sunday 18 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 4:42pm today
The Lac-377078 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.
42 minutes
on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 4:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.584, -118.090lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.3 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 17% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 0.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-376179 Fire started 1077 minutes before this one, 1.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 1.3 miles 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 9 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.