Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Town Fire

Burning 6.1 miles north of Hasley Canyon and 7.0 miles north-west of Castaic, since Wednesday 14 October.

Map of California. The Town Fire burns 316 miles from Sacramento, and 316 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 316 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

17

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Town Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

17 hours

on record — first written down on Wednesday 14 October at 4:34pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.569, -118.687lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.0 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 17% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-357251 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Templin Fire started on Wednesday 28 January, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-371632 Fire started 1 minutes before this one, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Gorman Fire started on Monday 8 June, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Club Fire started on Friday 31 July, 0.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Violin Fire started on Wednesday 22 April, 1.3 miles north-west, and has reached 1 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.

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.

  1. Wednesday 14 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 14 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac