Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Lac-399836 Fire

Burning 0.3 miles west of West Athens and 1.3 miles south of Westmont, since Wednesday 4 November.

Map of California. The Lac-399836 Fire burns 366 miles from Sacramento, and 366 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 366 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 11:50pm today

The Lac-399836 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.

35 minutes

on record — first written down on Wednesday 4 November at 11:16pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.924, -118.309lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.1 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 48% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-387698 Fire started on Monday 26 October, 0.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-367967 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-308327 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 0.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366704 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 0.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-298299 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 0.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307701 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.7 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Wednesday 4 November

    First reported