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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Saturday 24 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 7:25pm today
The Lac-385119 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 Saturday 24 October at 6:16pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.015, -118.230lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 12.4 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 43% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-372070 Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 0.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363108 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-371157 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 1.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339781 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-360011 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 2.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301937 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 2.7 miles south-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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 105 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.