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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Friday 23 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 3:57pm today
The Lac-383593 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.
27 minutes
on record — first written down on Friday 23 October at 3:31pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.930, -118.369lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.7 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 63% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-361202 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 0.1 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-349291 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 0.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343126 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361272 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 0.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-303072 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302310 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 0.9 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 78 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.