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Birdon Fire, May 2016 Collier

Out · last detection 7 May 2016, 19:01 UTC

The fire started on 6 May 2016 in Collier, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 4,440 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 12th largest in Florida since 2016 (of 148 with a page). Number 78 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
4,440ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
6 May 2016 – 6 May 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
6 May
2016
Heat detections
65
in a single hotspot: 98 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
269MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 May6 May

How it evolved, day by day

7

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
71km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.7 mm on 17 May.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Collier where it started
    4,450 ha reached on 29 Apr
    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)
29 Apr 33.6 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
30 Apr 33.0 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
1 May 32.5 °C 39 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 May 33.1 °C 41 % 36 km/h 1.4 mm Moderate 18
3 May 32.1 °C 51 % 41 km/h 1.4 mm Moderate 14
4 May 26.5 °C 74 % 71 km/h 17.7 mm Very low 1
5 May 29.1 °C 33 % 49 km/h 0.7 mm Low 11
6 May 28.1 °C 24 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
7 May after 29.7 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 May after 31.9 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
9 May after 32.3 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 May after 33.7 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
11 May after 34.9 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
12 May after 34.9 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 May after 33.3 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
14 May after 32.9 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 May after 34.8 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
16 May after 34.5 °C 34 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 May after 31.9 °C 65 % 40 km/h 10.7 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Apr 2016
After · 13 May 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 · 65Every 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 Birdon fire last?
It burned between 6 May 2016 and 6 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 4,440 hectares (44.4 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Collier (4,450 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 71 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.

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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.