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Berry Fire, July 2016 Teton

Out · last measured on 25 Jul 2016

The fire started on 25 July 2016 in Teton, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 8,404 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 17th largest in Wyoming since 2016 (of 117 with a page). Number 42 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
8,404ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
25 Jul 2016 – 25 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
25 Jul
2016
Heat detections
1,120
in a single hotspot: 408 MW
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Jul25 Jul

The weather it burned in

29°high
71km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.7 mm on 12 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Teton where it started
    8,413 ha reached on 3 Aug
    0.8 %

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)
25 Jul 28.6 °C 12 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Jul after 28.6 °C 13 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Jul after 28.6 °C 15 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
28 Jul after 27.5 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
29 Jul after 28.7 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Jul after 27.4 °C 20 % 55 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 45
31 Jul after 28.3 °C 18 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
1 Aug after 27.9 °C 15 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
2 Aug after 29.3 °C 13 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
3 Aug after 24.9 °C 10 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Aug after 26.5 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Aug after 27.7 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
6 Aug after 23.5 °C 26 % 39 km/h 6.4 mm Low 6
7 Aug after 23.8 °C 34 % 56 km/h 3.9 mm Low 6
8 Aug after 24.9 °C 18 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
9 Aug after 23.3 °C 20 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Aug after 21.3 °C 23 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Aug after 21.2 °C 21 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Aug after 23.4 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
13 Aug after 25.3 °C 17 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Aug after 25.7 °C 17 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Aug after 27.2 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Aug after 28.5 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
17 Aug after 27.4 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Aug after 23.4 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
19 Aug after 21.5 °C 19 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Aug after 23.8 °C 14 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Aug after 26.8 °C 14 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
22 Aug after 25.5 °C 10 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
23 Aug after 21.8 °C 12 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
24 Aug after 19.1 °C 19 % 48 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 41
25 Aug after 19.5 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Aug after 19.7 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
27 Aug after 22.6 °C 18 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
28 Aug after 25.1 °C 17 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
29 Aug after 27.0 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
30 Aug after 27.4 °C 15 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
31 Aug after 27.6 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Sept after 24.2 °C 26 % 47 km/h 1.0 mm High 28
2 Sept after 22.8 °C 29 % 56 km/h 0.1 mm High 33
3 Sept after 18.2 °C 31 % 41 km/h 0.2 mm High 28
4 Sept after 12.7 °C 54 % 45 km/h 8.9 mm Very low 0
5 Sept after 11.0 °C 47 % 45 km/h 8.6 mm Very low 0
6 Sept after 16.6 °C 27 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
7 Sept after 17.2 °C 31 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
8 Sept after 18.1 °C 27 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
9 Sept after 15.6 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 16
10 Sept after 19.8 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
11 Sept after 20.9 °C 18 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Sept after 13.5 °C 36 % 32 km/h 6.7 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jul 2016
After · 1 Aug 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 · 1,120Every 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Berry fire last?
It burned between 25 July 2016 and 25 July 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 8,404 hectares (84.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Teton (8,413 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 71 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, 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.