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Biederman Bluff Fire, June 2019 Yukon-Koyukuk

Out · last measured on 26 Jun 2019

The fire started on 26 June 2019 in Yukon-Koyukuk, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,838 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 261th largest in Alaska since 2016 (of 472 with a page). Number 138 in United States in 2019, of 367.

Burnt area
1,838ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
26 Jun 2019 – 26 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
26 Jun
2019
Heat detections
83
in a single hotspot: 119 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jun26 Jun

The weather it burned in

28°high
42km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.8 mm on 12 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Yukon-Koyukuk where it started
    1,842 ha reached on 29 Jun
    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)
26 Jun 19.4 °C 26 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
27 Jun after 20.8 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
28 Jun after 22.0 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 11
29 Jun after 27.6 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
30 Jun after 24.1 °C 40 % 37 km/h 1.7 mm Low 8
1 Jul after 16.3 °C 49 % 37 km/h 5.1 mm Very low 1
2 Jul after 19.3 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
3 Jul after 21.9 °C 40 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm Low 9
4 Jul after 18.5 °C 56 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
5 Jul after 23.7 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
6 Jul after 24.3 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
7 Jul after 22.7 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
8 Jul after 23.5 °C 29 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
9 Jul after 24.8 °C 31 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
10 Jul after 24.1 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 15
11 Jul after 19.2 °C 53 % 30 km/h 2.5 mm Very low 3
12 Jul after 14.1 °C 76 % 28 km/h 12.8 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Jun 2019
After · 3 Jul 2019

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 · 83Every 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 Biederman Bluff fire last?
It burned between 26 June 2019 and 26 June 2019: 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 1,838 hectares (18.4 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Yukon-Koyukuk (1,842 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
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.