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Central Coast C fire, July 2017 Central Coast C

Out · last detection 19 Aug 2017, 11:07 UTC

The fire started on 7 July 2017 in Central Coast C, Canada, and satellites saw it burning for 44 days. Canada’s CWFIS (Natural Resources Canada) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 6,525 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single census subdivision.

It is the 148th largest in British Columbia since 2016 (of 448 with a page). Number 72 in Canada in 2017, of 242.

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Burnt area
6,525ha
official perimeter (CWFIS)
Duration
44days
7 Jul 2017 – 19 Aug 2017
Census subdivisions hit
1
municipalities
Started on
7 Jul
2017
Heat detections
1,304
in a single hotspot: 152 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
328MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jul19 Aug
19 Aug 2017

How it evolved, day by day

8 Jul 2017 · 173 MW · 7 9 Jul 2017 · 544 MW · 24 11 Jul 2017 · 21 MW · 17 12 Jul 2017 · 13 MW · 3 17 Jul 2017 · 32 MW · 8 18 Jul 2017 · 337 MW · 111 19 Jul 2017 · 181 MW · 94 28 Jul 2017 · 5 MW · 1 2 Aug 2017 · 13 MW · 3 3 Aug 2017 · 111 MW · 20 4 Aug 2017 · 1,698 MW · 248 5 Aug 2017 · 1,850 MW · 191 6 Aug 2017 · 711 MW · 125 7 Aug 2017 · 280 MW · 74 8 Aug 2017 · 452 MW · 54 9 Aug 2017 · 469 MW · 80 10 Aug 2017 · 122 MW · 68 11 Aug 2017 · 961 MW · 81 12 Aug 2017 · 90 MW · 53 13 Aug 2017 · 22 MW · 5 14 Aug 2017 · 4 MW · 2 15 Aug 2017 · 33 MW · 15 16 Aug 2017 · 52 MW · 9 17 Aug 2017 · 15 MW · 9 19 Aug 2017 · 2 MW · 2
8 Jul 17 Jul 2 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 10 Aug 14 Aug 19 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
62km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.4 mm on 20 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.1% of the area of London (65 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each census subdivision

  1. Central Coast C where it started
    6,530 ha reached on 8 Jul
    1.6 %

Burnt area inside each census subdivision, 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 2015
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, 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.

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)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
7 Jul 22.8 °C 48 % 43 km/h 1.8 mm Low 6
8 Jul 23.2 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 13
9 Jul 18.4 °C 38 % 49 km/h 2.2 mm Low 6
10 Jul 17.4 °C 46 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
11 Jul 20.3 °C 42 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
12 Jul 18.4 °C 65 % 34 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 4
13 Jul 16.0 °C 61 % 31 km/h 3.7 mm Very low 1
14 Jul 19.9 °C 41 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
15 Jul 18.6 °C 53 % 54 km/h 1.7 mm Very low 4
16 Jul 14.8 °C 55 % 53 km/h 2.0 mm Very low 3
17 Jul 21.8 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
18 Jul 24.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
19 Jul 22.3 °C 49 % 32 km/h 5.3 mm Very low 1
20 Jul 16.9 °C 67 % 34 km/h 5.5 mm Very low 0
21 Jul 16.8 °C 68 % 28 km/h 1.5 mm Very low 0
22 Jul 18.9 °C 60 % 42 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 2
23 Jul 18.0 °C 47 % 41 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 3
24 Jul 25.4 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
25 Jul 26.2 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
26 Jul 22.1 °C 56 % 43 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 12
27 Jul 20.3 °C 42 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
28 Jul 20.9 °C 46 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 12
29 Jul 20.8 °C 51 % 45 km/h 3.9 mm Very low 2
30 Jul 21.0 °C 41 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 5
31 Jul 25.4 °C 34 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
1 Aug 28.4 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
2 Aug 30.8 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
3 Aug 31.0 °C 23 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Aug 27.7 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Aug 29.1 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
6 Aug 30.0 °C 28 % 29 km/h 0.2 mm High 24
7 Aug 29.5 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
8 Aug 30.2 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Aug 31.4 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
10 Aug 31.8 °C 25 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
11 Aug 27.9 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.2 mm High 26
12 Aug 23.5 °C 39 % 48 km/h 3.4 mm Low 6
13 Aug 16.5 °C 51 % 48 km/h 4.1 mm Very low 2
14 Aug 19.6 °C 39 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
15 Aug 19.7 °C 42 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
16 Aug 20.8 °C 47 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 13
17 Aug 21.7 °C 49 % 57 km/h 1.9 mm Low 6
18 Aug 15.6 °C 49 % 62 km/h 3.0 mm Very low 3
19 Aug 17.2 °C 53 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
20 Aug after 18.3 °C 67 % 30 km/h 2.4 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jun 2017
After · 26 Aug 2017

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 · 1,304Every 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 Central Coast C fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 7 July 2017 to 19 August 2017 (44 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 July 2017 to 17 August 2017.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter mapped by Canada’s CWFIS (Natural Resources Canada) is 6,525 hectares (65.2 km²). Other tallies, such as those of provincial agencies, may give slightly different figures.
Which census subdivisions burned?
The fire only entered Central Coast C (6,530 ha, 1.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.8 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the official burnt perimeter of Canada’s CWFIS (NBAC, Natural Resources Canada) or, for the current season and until NBAC publishes it, the one rebuilt by GWIS (Copernicus); from NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots; and from the administrative boundaries of Canada. 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: NBAC (Natural Resources Canada), official.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 7 July 2017 to 17 August 2017. 1,304 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 2015, 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: it comes from the National Burned Area Composite (NBAC) of the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS), Natural Resources Canada, which maps it on satellite imagery and publishes it under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Until NBAC publishes the current season, this year’s fires carry the perimeter rebuilt from heat detections by GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), which is approximate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Census subdivision boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per census subdivision is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.