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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Tuesday 27 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 10:38pm today
The Lac-389289 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.
10 minutes
on record — first written down on Tuesday 27 October at 10:27pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.914, -118.112lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.6 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 86% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-359613 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 0.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-387508 Fire started on Monday 26 October, 0.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350465 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-384992 Fire started on Saturday 24 October, 1.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321544 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 1.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321577 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 1.8 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 6 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.