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23 Fire, April 2022 Beaver

Out · last detection 7 Apr 2022, 20:26 UTC

The fire started on 7 April 2022 in Beaver, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,095 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 126th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 287 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
1,095ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
7 Apr 2022 – 7 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
7 Apr
2022
Heat detections
57
in a single hotspot: 35 MW
Danger at start
51
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
714MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Apr7 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

7

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

15°high
83km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Beaver where it started
    1,099 ha reached on 7 Apr
    0.2 %

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

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)
7 Apr 14.9 °C 14 % 83 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
8 Apr after 16.4 °C 14 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Apr after 29.5 °C 10 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Apr after 20.1 °C 11 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Apr after 20.7 °C 18 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
12 Apr after 30.9 °C 14 % 81 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
13 Apr after 12.2 °C 21 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Apr after 19.5 °C 16 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Apr after 24.6 °C 16 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
16 Apr after 13.0 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
17 Apr after 21.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Mar 2022
After · 14 Apr 2022

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

Detections table · 57Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the 23 Fire fire last?
It burned between 7 April 2022 and 7 April 2022: 1 day, according to the start date recorded by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) and the heat detections seen by satellite.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 1,095 hectares (11.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Beaver (1,099 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 14.9 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 83 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.
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.

Emergency number: 911

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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.