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412 Fire, March 2020 Beaver

Out · last detection 8 Mar 2020, 08:14 UTC

The fire started on 7 March 2020 in Beaver, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 8,932 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 14th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 74 in United States in 2020, of 441.

Burnt area
8,932ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
7 Mar 2020 – 7 Mar 2020
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
7 Mar
2020
Heat detections
136
in a single hotspot: 227 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
5.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Mar 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Mar7 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

78

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

The weather it burned in

21°high
67km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.7 mm on 13 Mar.

This area had burned before

9% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 822 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Beaver where it started
    8,943 ha reached on 7 Mar
    1.9 %

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 Mar 21.4 °C 22 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
8 Mar after 16.8 °C 45 % 67 km/h 1.5 mm Low 9
9 Mar after 15.1 °C 47 % 62 km/h 0.3 mm Low 11
10 Mar after 23.2 °C 31 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
11 Mar after 20.9 °C 29 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
12 Mar after 22.0 °C 28 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
13 Mar after 8.1 °C 56 % 46 km/h 9.7 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Feb 2020
After · 14 Mar 2020

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 · 136Every 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 412 Fire fire last?
It burned between 7 March 2020 and 7 March 2020: 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 8,932 hectares (89.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Beaver (8,943 ha, 1.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 21.4 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.

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.