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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Monday 19 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 6:51am today
The Lac-377719 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 Monday 19 October at 5:39am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.690, -117.685lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.9 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 55% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-331175 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 3.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-356997 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-233060 Fire started on Saturday 4 July, 4.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343443 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 5.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343512 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 6.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339673 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 7.8 miles south, 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 23 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.