Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-394132 Fire

Burning 5.9 miles north-west of Lancaster and 7.0 miles north of Quartz Hill, since Saturday 31 October.

Map of California. The Lac-394132 Fire burns 318 miles from Sacramento, and 318 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 318 miles from Sacramento.

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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 7:03pm today

The Lac-394132 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.

44 minutes

on record — first written down on Saturday 31 October at 6:19pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.748, -118.255lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.0 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 77% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-339983 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 1.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366376 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 2.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357517 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361736 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343153 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 2.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-370351 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 3.1 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. The last of those windows closed 83 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.

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.

  1. Saturday 31 October

    First reported