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
18
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 Pico 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.
18 hours
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 8:25am local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.027, -118.042lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.5 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-353052 Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 0.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-331792 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 0.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-333919 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 0.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302494 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 0.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-321117 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 0.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-369672 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 1.0 miles north-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 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.