Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-395954 Fire

Burning 2.6 miles east of Lancaster and 5.8 miles north-east of Quartz Hill, since Monday 2 November.

Map of California. The Lac-395954 Fire burns 325 miles from Sacramento, and 325 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 325 miles from Sacramento.

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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 12:53am today

The Lac-395954 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.

30 minutes

on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 12:23am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.699, -118.130lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.3 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 68% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-374635 Fire started on Friday 16 October, 0.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339581 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 0.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299783 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366024 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 0.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-376079 Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 0.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-319375 Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 0.7 miles south-west, 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 114 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. Monday 2 November

    First reported