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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Tuesday 20 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 8:13pm today
The Lac-380082 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 Tuesday 20 October at 7:07pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.002, -118.169lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 9.2 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 61% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-299880 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310676 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 0.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-310759 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 0.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-380165 Fire started 70 minutes after this one, 1.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-335283 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 1.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-297929 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 1.1 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:10am and 10:00am 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.