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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Wednesday 21 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 9:33pm today
The Lac-381453 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.
39 minutes
on record — first written down on Wednesday 21 October at 8:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.558, -118.132lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.2 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 96% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-358020 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-336264 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-365287 Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Damon Fire started on Sunday 18 October, 1.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 1.7 miles north-east, 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 36 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.