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Crooks Fire, April 2022 Yavapai

Out · last detection 19 Apr 2022, 20:00 UTC

The fire started on 18 April 2022 in Yavapai, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 3,711 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 88th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 125 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
3,711ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
18 Apr 2022 – 18 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
18 Apr
2022
Heat detections
615
in a single hotspot: 261 MW
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
671MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Apr 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Apr18 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

1819

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

The weather it burned in

24°high
70km/h · peak gust
5%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 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. Yavapai where it started
    3,702 ha reached on 18 Apr
    0.2 %

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)
18 Apr 23.2 °C 5 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Apr after 22.7 °C 5 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
20 Apr after 20.4 °C 13 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
21 Apr after 20.7 °C 15 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Apr after 13.5 °C 22 % 70 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 42
23 Apr after 16.5 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
24 Apr after 17.8 °C 5 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Apr after 21.4 °C 5 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Apr after 22.8 °C 6 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
27 Apr after 20.9 °C 9 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
28 Apr after 20.3 °C 11 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
29 Apr after 22.5 °C 5 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Apr after 23.9 °C 7 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
1 May after 22.0 °C 7 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
2 May after 21.3 °C 17 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
3 May after 20.1 °C 12 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 May after 21.2 °C 8 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
5 May after 24.0 °C 9 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
6 May after 25.4 °C 8 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
7 May after 24.8 °C 13 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
8 May after 21.9 °C 11 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
9 May after 18.1 °C 13 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
10 May after 19.2 °C 14 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Apr 2022
After · 25 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 · 615Every 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 Crooks fire last?
It burned between 18 April 2022 and 18 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 3,711 hectares (37.1 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Yavapai (3,702 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.9 °C, humidity dropped to 5 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class 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.

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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.