Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-397062 Fire

Burning 7.6 miles north-west of Lancaster and 8.0 miles north-west of Quartz Hill, since Monday 2 November.

Map of California. The Lac-397062 Fire burns 317 miles from Sacramento, and 317 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 317 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 8:26pm today

The Lac-397062 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 7:14pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.751, -118.290lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.1 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 56% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-366376 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-357517 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361736 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 0.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-343153 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 1.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-394132 Fire started on Saturday 31 October, 2.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-363399 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 2.0 miles 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 133 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