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2 Mile Road Fire, February 2016 Haskell, Muskogee

Out · last measured on 19 Feb 2016

The fire started on 8 February 2016 in Haskell, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 535 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 233th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 404 in United States in 2016, of 475.

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We have the official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC) for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by county is there.

Burnt area
535ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
12days
8 Feb 2016 – 19 Feb 2016
Counties hit
2
counties
Started on
8 Feb
2016
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

25°high
79km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 32.3 mm on 23 Feb.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5.4 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each county

  1. Haskell where it started
    517 ha
    0.3 %
  2. Muskogee
    21 ha
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2015
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
8 Feb 9.2 °C 23 % 79 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
9 Feb 9.0 °C 28 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
10 Feb 18.4 °C 25 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
11 Feb 17.6 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
12 Feb 14.7 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
13 Feb 13.0 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
14 Feb 15.0 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
15 Feb 17.2 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
16 Feb 16.1 °C 34 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
17 Feb 20.6 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
18 Feb 24.8 °C 20 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
19 Feb 24.0 °C 43 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Feb after 23.9 °C 54 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
21 Feb after 21.3 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
22 Feb after 17.1 °C 41 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 11
23 Feb after 10.5 °C 71 % 59 km/h 32.3 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 1 Feb 2016
After · 26 Feb 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the 2 Mile Road Fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 February 2016 to 19 February 2016 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 February 2016 to 8 February 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 535 hectares (5.4 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Haskell (517 ha, 0.3 %); Muskogee (21 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 24.8 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 79 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the official burnt perimeter of United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC, public domain), NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of United States. It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: MTBS (US Geological Survey and US Forest Service), official.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 8 February 2016 to 8 February 2016. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter is official and in the public domain. For past years it comes from MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity), run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service, which map it on Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. For the current and last year it comes from WFIGS at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): incident perimeters mapped by fire crews, aircraft and imagery. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. County boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.