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Arch Fire, March 2022 Roosevelt

Out · last measured on 17 Mar 2022

The fire started on 17 March 2022 in Roosevelt, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 2,363 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 69th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 181 in United States in 2022, of 493.

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
2,363ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
17 Mar 2022 – 17 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
17 Mar
2022
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

16°high
66km/h · peak gust
10%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. Roosevelt where it started
    2,359 ha
    0.4 %

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)
17 Mar 15.6 °C 10 % 66 km/h 1.2 mm Very high 40
18 Mar after 15.0 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Mar after 20.9 °C 8 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
20 Mar after 24.8 °C 14 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
21 Mar after 16.7 °C 19 % 70 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 42
22 Mar after 9.7 °C 27 % 65 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 41
23 Mar after 12.1 °C 17 % 60 km/h 0.1 mm High 36
24 Mar after 23.5 °C 4 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Mar after 26.0 °C 7 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
26 Mar after 27.9 °C 6 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
27 Mar after 31.0 °C 2 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Mar 2022
After · 24 Mar 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.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Arch fire last?
It burned between 17 March 2022 and 17 March 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 2,363 hectares (23.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Roosevelt (2,359 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 15.6 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 66 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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.