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Burnt Canyon Fire, June 2025 Lincoln

Out · last detection 12 Jun 2025, 09:19 UTC

The fire started on 11 June 2025 in Lincoln, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 432 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 233th largest in Nevada since 2016 (of 236 with a page). Number 310 in United States in 2025, of 325.

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Suggestions: Tolicha Peak · 2017Pinto · 2016Miller · 2020Wilson Creek · 2021

Burnt area
432ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
≈ 2days
11 Jun 2025 – 12 Jun 2025
Counties hit
1
counties
Started on
11 Jun
2025
Heat detections
16
in a single hotspot: 177 MW
Danger at start
103
Very extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
688MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jun12 Jun
12 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

11 Jun 2025 · 1,371 MW · 11 12 Jun 2025 · 4 MW · 5
11 Jun 12 Jun

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
65km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each county

  1. Lincoln where it started
    434 ha reached on 11 Jun
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 36 % of the area in United States Strong wind: 27 % of the area in United States Very dry air: 40 % of the area in United States

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
11 Jun 30.3 °C 8 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 103
12 Jun 29.5 °C 7 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 91
13 Jun after 28.2 °C 7 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 95
14 Jun after 29.8 °C 8 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
15 Jun after 31.0 °C 5 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 99
16 Jun after 30.9 °C 3 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 111
17 Jun after 29.1 °C 7 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
18 Jun after 32.3 °C 7 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 76
19 Jun after 31.3 °C 7 % 76 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 138
20 Jun after 28.6 °C 8 % 76 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 124
21 Jun after 24.5 °C 12 % 84 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 129
22 Jun after 20.0 °C 10 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 103.0, a minimum humidity of 8% and 23 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 10.

FWI at the start 103.0
Minimum humidity 8 %
Days without rain 23
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Tolicha Peak Fire, June 2017
890 ha 2 days FWI 102.1 Min. humidity 8 % 245 km away, in 2017

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 10. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
65km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 12 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jun 2025
After · 19 Jun 2025

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 11 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
9 Jun11 Jun13 Jun
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 · 16Every 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 Burnt Canyon Fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (11 June 2025). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 12 June 2025 (2 days from 11 June 2025), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 432 hectares (4.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Lincoln (434 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.3 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 65 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 103, class Very 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 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: NIFC WFIGS (United States), official.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 16 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.