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
2
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:40pm today
The Lac-397182 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.
2 hours
on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 9:06pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.684, -118.166lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.8 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 46% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297638 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-391285 Fire started on Thursday 29 October, 0.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-323986 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 0.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331852 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 0.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-334149 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 0.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-395977 Fire started 1204 minutes before this one, 0.4 miles north-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 136 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.