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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Sunday 25 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 11:09am today
The Lac-385891 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.
35 minutes
on record — first written down on Sunday 25 October at 10:34am local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.911, -118.169lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.4 miles from the fire: 77°F, air at 41% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-303842 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343952 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315639 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313831 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315962 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343373 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 0.0 miles west, 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 121 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.