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 31 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 4:50pm today
The Lac-393982 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.
52 minutes
on record — first written down on Saturday 31 October at 3:58pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.022, -118.802lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.3 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 71% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Dume Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. King Fire started on Friday 4 September, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bryson Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 5.2 miles north-west, and has reached 146 acres with 19 people assigned. Lac-322773 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 8.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ava Fire started on Friday 16 October, 8.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Vnco Vedder Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 8.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 81 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.