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Foote Fire, June 2024 Greenlee

Out · last detection 15 Jun 2024, 20:25 UTC

The fire started on 14 June 2024 in Greenlee, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,734 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 150th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 161 in United States in 2024, of 371.

Burnt area
1,734ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
14 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
14 Jun
2024
Heat detections
231
in a single hotspot: 357 MW
Danger at start
56
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
203MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

15 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jun14 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

1415

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
74km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.1 mm on 21 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. Greenlee where it started
    1,747 ha reached on 14 Jun
    0.4 %

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 Jun 28.6 °C 12 % 59 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 56
15 Jun after 31.6 °C 11 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Jun after 31.2 °C 9 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
17 Jun after 29.8 °C 11 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
18 Jun after 28.4 °C 12 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Jun after 29.2 °C 15 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
20 Jun after 29.6 °C 26 % 74 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 58
21 Jun after 24.3 °C 55 % 56 km/h 6.1 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jun 2024
After · 21 Jun 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 14 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
Optical depth0.44
121314151617
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 231Every 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 Foote fire last?
It burned between 14 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 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 1,734 hectares (17.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Greenlee (1,747 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 74 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, 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.

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.