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 15 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
16
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 2:20am today
The Lost Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Ventura 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.
16 hours
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 10:38am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.314, -118.734lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.3 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 20% humidity, a 26 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Easy Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Kuehner Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Peak Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 5.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pass Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-304450 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Madera Inc Fire started on Friday 2 October, 6.3 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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.