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Bedrock Fire, July 2023 Lane

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2023, 21:01 UTC

The fire started on 23 July 2023 in Lane, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 12,814 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 60th largest in Oregon since 2016 (of 327 with a page). Number 12 in United States in 2023, of 305.

Burnt area
12,814ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
23 Jul 2023 – 23 Jul 2023
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
23 Jul
2023
Heat detections
534
in a single hotspot: 116 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Jul 2023
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jul23 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

2324

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
45km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 32 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 4 Aug.

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,004 ha in 2017, 20 ha in 2020, 200 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Lane where it started
    12,855 ha reached on 23 Jul
    1.1 %

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)
23 Jul 30.6 °C 35 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
24 Jul after 26.6 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Jul after 25.9 °C 40 % 36 km/h 0.4 mm High 27
26 Jul after 28.2 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
27 Jul after 27.5 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
28 Jul after 27.5 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Jul after 26.8 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jul after 27.3 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
31 Jul after 28.3 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Aug after 30.9 °C 21 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
2 Aug after 30.3 °C 20 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Aug after 30.2 °C 26 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Aug after 29.3 °C 35 % 38 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 20

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jul 2023
After · 30 Jul 2023

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

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 July 2023 the air beside the fire reached 97 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 55: 3.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak97 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM10140 µg/m³
Optical depth0.70
212223242526
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 534Every 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 Bedrock fire last?
It burned between 23 July 2023 and 23 July 2023: 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 12,814 hectares (128.1 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Lane (12,855 ha, 1.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.6 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.