Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-379048 Fire

Burning 3.0 miles south-east of Glendale and 3.9 miles west of Pasadena, since Tuesday 20 October.

Map of California. The Lac-379048 Fire burns 355 miles from Sacramento, and 355 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 355 miles from Sacramento.

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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 picture as of 4:10am today

The Lac-379048 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 25 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 25 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lac-379048 Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

25hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:30am on Monday, local time.

188% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

3.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Glendale at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Pasadena is 3.1 miles, None in the last day.

0.9miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

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. The last of those windows closed 12 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 2.9 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 58% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:32am on 19 Oct and runs to 3:28am on 19 Oct — 1 hours, 5 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Lac-379048 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 2:00amMon 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 19 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon19 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 5 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:28am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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.

  1. Tuesday 20 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 25 hours, and the record still lists it as active.