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 30 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 6:04am today
The Lac-392037 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 Friday 30 October at 5:29am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.144, -118.751lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.4 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 97% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Ava Fire started on Friday 16 October, 0.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Campus Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Holly Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 2.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bryson Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 6.2 miles south-west, and has reached 146 acres with 19 people assigned. Saddle Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 6.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Otis Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 7.5 miles 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 11 times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 46 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.