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
0
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:10pm today
The Lac-378888 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.
15 minutes
on record — first written down on Monday 19 October at 9:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.485, -117.945lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 21% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-299938 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361305 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298474 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-314236 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Felix Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Emma Fire started on Friday 27 March, 4.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 four 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.