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Doagy Fire, May 2021 Catron

Out · last detection 15 May 2021, 09:37 UTC

The fire started on 14 May 2021 in Catron, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 5,244 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 31th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 83 in United States in 2021, of 385.

Burnt area
5,244ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
14 May 2021 – 14 May 2021
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
14 May
2021
Heat detections
224
in a single hotspot: 50 MW
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index
Energy released
7MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 May14 May

How it evolved, day by day

15

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

The weather it burned in

26°high
92km/h · peak gust
4%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 1 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Catron where it started
    5,217 ha reached on 15 May
    0.3 %

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)
14 May 24.9 °C 15 % 42 km/h 1.5 mm High 24
15 May after 22.2 °C 17 % 44 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
16 May after 23.5 °C 7 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 May after 18.3 °C 16 % 51 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 44
18 May after 17.9 °C 19 % 45 km/h 0.2 mm High 38
19 May after 23.2 °C 18 % 48 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 43
20 May after 25.0 °C 12 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
21 May after 17.8 °C 26 % 75 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 47
22 May after 23.8 °C 15 % 92 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
23 May after 22.3 °C 5 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
24 May after 24.9 °C 5 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
25 May after 26.2 °C 4 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
26 May after 25.5 °C 6 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
27 May after 26.1 °C 7 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
28 May after 28.3 °C 4 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
29 May after 28.5 °C 2 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
30 May after 26.4 °C 10 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
31 May after 24.7 °C 13 % 51 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 49
1 Jun after 22.5 °C 23 % 40 km/h 2.0 mm Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 May 2021
After · 21 May 2021

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 · 224Every 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 Doagy fire last?
It burned between 14 May 2021 and 14 May 2021: 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 5,244 hectares (52.4 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Catron (5,217 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.2 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 92 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 67, 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.