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Central Fire, August 2016 Park, Teton

Out · last measured on 26 Aug 2016

The fire started on 26 August 2016 in Park, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 945 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 68th largest in Wyoming since 2016 (of 117 with a page). Number 282 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
945ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
26 Aug 2016 – 26 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
26 Aug
2016
Heat detections
128
in a single hotspot: 188 MW
Danger at start
7
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Aug26 Aug

The weather it burned in

24°high
71km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.3 mm on 12 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Park where it started
    833 ha reached on 29 Aug
    0.0 %
  2. Teton
    112 ha reached on 29 Aug
    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 Aug 16.0 °C 33 % 41 km/h 1.7 mm Low 7
27 Aug after 18.6 °C 24 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
28 Aug after 20.9 °C 22 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
29 Aug after 22.5 °C 22 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
30 Aug after 22.5 °C 23 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
31 Aug after 23.8 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
1 Sept after 21.2 °C 29 % 50 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 19
2 Sept after 18.6 °C 28 % 67 km/h 0.3 mm High 31
3 Sept after 14.5 °C 38 % 57 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 14
4 Sept after 10.2 °C 63 % 40 km/h 14.4 mm Very low 0
5 Sept after 8.1 °C 64 % 54 km/h 5.9 mm Very low 0
6 Sept after 13.1 °C 30 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
7 Sept after 13.9 °C 31 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
8 Sept after 14.5 °C 29 % 71 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 12
9 Sept after 12.7 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 11
10 Sept after 16.9 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
11 Sept after 17.0 °C 21 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Sept after 8.9 °C 64 % 35 km/h 11.3 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 Aug 2016
After · 2 Sept 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 · 128Every 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 fire last?
It burned between 26 August 2016 and 26 August 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 945 hectares (9.4 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Park (833 ha, 0.0 %); Teton (112 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 71 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.