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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Thursday 27 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
49
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Liberty 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 days
on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 8:15am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.543, -118.050lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.0 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 19% humidity, a 17 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-313796 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 0.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-328996 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hilary Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 1.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Colin Fire started on Monday 5 October, 1.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-316247 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 2.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315707 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 2.6 miles north, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm 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.