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
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 1:51pm today
The Norma 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.
1 hour
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 12:51pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.234, -118.270lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 4.3 miles from the fire: 86°F, air at 13% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Pipe Fire started on Thursday 13 August, 3.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Valley Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dark Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 4.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338145 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Tujunga Fire started on Friday 2 October, 4.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Switzer Fire started on Friday 21 August, 7.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 28 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.