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
2
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 6:06pm today
The Lac-378541 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 4:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.913, -118.180lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.9 miles from the fire: 83°F, air at 30% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-359687 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-300511 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355970 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-306142 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343970 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 0.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351916 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 0.5 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time.
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.