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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Monday 2 November
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 7:55am today
The Lac-396155 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.
49 minutes
on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 7:06am local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.956, -118.244lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.6 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 75% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-352990 Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 0.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357229 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.7 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-389240 Fire started on Tuesday 27 October, 0.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350512 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-358452 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307633 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.0 miles south, 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 121 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.