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 11:47pm today
The Lac-397271 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.
50 minutes
on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 10:57pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.573, -118.076lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.9 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 57% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-376179 Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 0.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315038 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.4 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 0.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-374825 Fire started on Friday 16 October, 1.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-377078 Fire started on Sunday 18 October, 1.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-391053 Fire started on Thursday 29 October, 1.4 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 137 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.