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
0
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 5:47pm today
The Lac-377188 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.
19 minutes
on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 5:29pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.931, -118.178lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.3 miles from the fire: 83°F, air at 31% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-355964 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357641 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-359636 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-370539 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-376823 Fire started 286 minutes before this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303541 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.0 miles west, 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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.