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Bert Fire, May 2016 Coconino

Out · last measured on 29 May 2016

The fire started on 29 May 2016 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 2,259 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 119th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 149 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
2,259ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
29 May 2016 – 29 May 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
29 May
2016
Heat detections
302
in a single hotspot: 238 MW
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 May29 May

The weather it burned in

36°high
69km/h · peak gust
3%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 28 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. Coconino where it started
    2,258 ha reached on 31 May
    0.0 %

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)
29 May 24.4 °C 9 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 May after 22.3 °C 11 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 May after 25.9 °C 8 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Jun after 27.5 °C 6 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
2 Jun after 30.2 °C 3 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Jun after 31.3 °C 5 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Jun after 32.2 °C 7 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
5 Jun after 32.8 °C 7 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
6 Jun after 31.3 °C 6 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
7 Jun after 29.9 °C 7 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
8 Jun after 30.5 °C 12 % 47 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 58
9 Jun after 30.4 °C 11 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
10 Jun after 29.7 °C 11 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
11 Jun after 24.4 °C 32 % 52 km/h 3.9 mm Low 10
12 Jun after 26.7 °C 10 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
13 Jun after 24.4 °C 12 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Jun after 26.2 °C 11 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Jun after 25.9 °C 7 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
16 Jun after 26.4 °C 12 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
17 Jun after 28.4 °C 7 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
18 Jun after 32.2 °C 4 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
19 Jun after 35.0 °C 9 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
20 Jun after 36.1 °C 7 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
21 Jun after 33.8 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.3 mm Extreme 62
22 Jun after 32.6 °C 11 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
23 Jun after 31.6 °C 11 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
24 Jun after 31.2 °C 12 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
25 Jun after 31.4 °C 9 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
26 Jun after 34.5 °C 6 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
27 Jun after 32.3 °C 11 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
28 Jun after 30.1 °C 21 % 32 km/h 1.3 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 May 2016
After · 5 Jun 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 · 302Every 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 Bert fire last?
It burned between 29 May 2016 and 29 May 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 2,259 hectares (22.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (2,258 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.1 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 69 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, 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.