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350 Complex, April 2016 Woodward, Harper

Out · last detection 6 Apr 2016, 20:26 UTC

The fire started on 5 April 2016 in Woodward, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 23,473 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 5th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 7 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
23,473ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
5 Apr 2016 – 5 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
5 Apr
2016
Heat detections
59
in a single hotspot: 112 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

6 Apr 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Apr5 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

56

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
92km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 14.0 mm on 11 Apr.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Woodward where it started
    17,815 ha reached on 1 Apr
    5.5 %
  2. Harper
    5,752 ha reached on 5 Apr
    2.1 %

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)
1 Apr 15.8 °C 19 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
2 Apr 21.7 °C 20 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
3 Apr 27.0 °C 14 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Apr 26.0 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Apr 31.0 °C 12 % 92 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 75
6 Apr after 23.0 °C 14 % 74 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
7 Apr after 22.5 °C 20 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
8 Apr after 22.3 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Apr after 24.6 °C 31 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
10 Apr after 29.7 °C 18 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
11 Apr after 18.8 °C 36 % 51 km/h 14.0 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Mar 2016
After · 12 Apr 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.

Detections table · 59Every 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 350 Complex fire last?
It burned between 5 April 2016 and 5 April 2016: 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 23,473 hectares (234.7 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Woodward (17,815 ha, 5.5 %); Harper (5,752 ha, 2.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.0 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 92 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 75, class Very 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.

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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.