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
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 11:20pm today
The Lac-384049 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 Friday 23 October at 10:19pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.821, -118.276lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 19.0 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 76% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-345628 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345615 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 0.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-345864 Fire started on Friday 25 September, 1.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338556 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 1.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339943 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 1.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299553 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.3 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 85 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.