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Collins Fire, April 2022 Catron

Out · last detection 8 Apr 2022, 20:06 UTC

The fire started on 7 April 2022 in Catron, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,122 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 116th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 283 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
1,122ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
7 Apr 2022 – 7 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
7 Apr
2022
Heat detections
37
in a single hotspot: 68 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
545MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Apr 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Apr7 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

78

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

The weather it burned in

21°high
40km/h · peak gust
5%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2019.

What happened to each town

  1. Catron where it started
    1,121 ha reached on 7 Apr
    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)
7 Apr 18.7 °C 5 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Apr after 20.8 °C 5 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Apr after 20.6 °C 6 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
10 Apr after 17.8 °C 13 % 73 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 43
11 Apr after 17.4 °C 18 % 81 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Apr after 12.9 °C 27 % 94 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
13 Apr after 13.6 °C 6 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
14 Apr after 18.2 °C 10 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Apr after 20.3 °C 6 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Apr after 20.3 °C 7 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
17 Apr after 23.0 °C 4 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
18 Apr after 23.8 °C 4 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Mar 2022
After · 14 Apr 2022

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 · 37Every 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 Collins fire last?
It burned between 7 April 2022 and 7 April 2022: 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 1,122 hectares (11.2 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Catron (1,121 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 20.8 °C, humidity dropped to 5 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.

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.