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.
-
Friday 25 September
First reported
—
acreage not yet reported
20
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 2:20am today
The Lucas 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.
20 days
on record — first written down on Friday 25 September at 3:43pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.031, -118.067lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 4.6 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 19% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-302757 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-311309 Fire started on Monday 31 August, 0.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-325444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lincoln Fire started on Friday 2 October, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351110 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 1.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 1.2 miles north-east, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm 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.