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Bear Fire, 16 June 2021 Greenlee

Out · last measured on 16 Jun 2021

The fire started on 16 June 2021 in Greenlee, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 9,896 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 34th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 57 in United States in 2021, of 385.

Burnt area
9,896ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
16 Jun 2021 – 16 Jun 2021
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
16 Jun
2021
Heat detections
833
in a single hotspot: 209 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jun16 Jun

The weather it burned in

34°high
58km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.2 mm on 30 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Greenlee where it started
    9,965 ha reached on 18 Jun
    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)
16 Jun 32.7 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.6 mm Very high 44
17 Jun after 30.6 °C 14 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
18 Jun after 32.3 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Jun after 34.0 °C 11 % 41 km/h 0.6 mm Very high 44
20 Jun after 32.9 °C 11 % 58 km/h 0.8 mm Extreme 52
21 Jun after 31.1 °C 11 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
22 Jun after 31.4 °C 10 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
23 Jun after 27.0 °C 30 % 54 km/h 2.0 mm Moderate 21
24 Jun after 25.6 °C 30 % 49 km/h 1.7 mm Moderate 17
25 Jun after 27.0 °C 19 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Jun after 26.5 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.7 mm High 28
27 Jun after 26.8 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 38
28 Jun after 22.7 °C 40 % 40 km/h 8.3 mm Very low 4
29 Jun after 21.3 °C 43 % 34 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 4
30 Jun after 22.5 °C 43 % 34 km/h 13.2 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jun 2021
After · 23 Jun 2021

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 · 833Every 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 Bear fire last?
It burned between 16 June 2021 and 16 June 2021: 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 9,896 hectares (99.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Greenlee (9,965 ha, 2.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.0 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, 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.