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Coleman Fire, June 2016 Monterey

Out · last detection 5 Jun 2016, 21:42 UTC

The fire started on 4 June 2016 in Monterey, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,166 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 262th largest in California since 2016 (of 442 with a page). Number 234 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
1,166ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
4 Jun 2016 – 4 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
4 Jun
2016
Heat detections
70
in a single hotspot: 225 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

5 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Jun4 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

45

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
36km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 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 town

  1. Monterey where it started
    1,166 ha reached on 4 Jun
    0.1 %

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)
4 Jun 31.2 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
5 Jun after 30.3 °C 18 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
6 Jun after 30.0 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
7 Jun after 30.5 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
8 Jun after 28.3 °C 16 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
9 Jun after 26.0 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Jun after 24.4 °C 17 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Jun after 25.4 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Jun after 24.4 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Jun after 25.4 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Jun after 20.3 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
15 Jun after 17.6 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Jun after 22.3 °C 27 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 May 2016
After · 11 Jun 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 · 70Every 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 Coleman fire last?
It burned between 4 June 2016 and 4 June 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 1,166 hectares (11.7 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Monterey (1,166 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.

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.