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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Wednesday 28 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 12:41pm today
The Lac-389819 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 Wednesday 28 October at 11:14am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.580, -118.110lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.0 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 37% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-315242 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329597 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-380413 Fire started on Wednesday 21 October, 0.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 0.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.4 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time.
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.