How long did the Goose fire last?

It burned between 29 June 2022 and 29 June 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 4,690 hectares (46.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.

Which counties burned?

The fire only entered Yukon-Koyukuk (5,001 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.

US · United States · 2022-06-29 → 2022-06-29

Goose Fire, June 2022 Yukon-Koyukuk

Out · last detection 30 Jun 2022, 22:41 UTC

The fire started on 29 June 2022 in Yukon-Koyukuk, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 4,690 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 163th largest in Alaska since 2016 (of 472 with a page). Number 102 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area: 4,690ha; official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration: 1day; 29 Jun 2022 – 29 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit: 1; counties
Started on: 29 Jun; 2022
Heat detections: 337; in a single hotspot: 135 MW
Danger at start: 28; High · FWI index
Energy released: 384MW; sum of detected power

Play back 30 Jun 2022

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jun29 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2930

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

48km/h · peak gust

17%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 1 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Yukon-Koyukuk where it started

5,001 ha reached on 29 Jun

0.0 %

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)
29 Jun	25.3 °C	24 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
30 Jun after	27.4 °C	24 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
1 Jul after	30.4 °C	17 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
2 Jul after	32.2 °C	18 %	25 km/h	0.7 mm	High 31
3 Jul after	29.4 °C	34 %	30 km/h	2.4 mm	Low 11
4 Jul after	28.5 °C	32 %	23 km/h	0.6 mm	Moderate 19
5 Jul after	29.4 °C	29 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	High 24
6 Jul after	29.4 °C	32 %	24 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 20
7 Jul after	26.4 °C	49 %	24 km/h	4.1 mm	Very low 4
8 Jul after	28.2 °C	35 %	25 km/h	0.2 mm	Low 11
9 Jul after	28.3 °C	36 %	23 km/h	4.5 mm	Very low 4
10 Jul after	28.1 °C	39 %	32 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 13
11 Jul after	28.0 °C	35 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
12 Jul after	25.5 °C	37 %	24 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 13
13 Jul after	21.0 °C	42 %	48 km/h	2.1 mm	Low 8
14 Jul after	18.4 °C	31 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
15 Jul after	21.0 °C	26 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
16 Jul after	17.2 °C	46 %	34 km/h	2.8 mm	Very low 4
17 Jul after	19.5 °C	58 %	20 km/h	3.0 mm	Very low 2
18 Jul after	18.9 °C	47 %	45 km/h	0.6 mm	Low 7
19 Jul after	16.9 °C	48 %	38 km/h	1.9 mm	Very low 5
20 Jul after	19.5 °C	37 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
21 Jul after	22.2 °C	36 %	30 km/h	0.9 mm	Moderate 12
22 Jul after	16.2 °C	61 %	17 km/h	6.0 mm	Very low 0
23 Jul after	19.6 °C	29 %	45 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 6
24 Jul after	21.3 °C	30 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 11
25 Jul after	25.7 °C	33 %	34 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 18
26 Jul after	21.2 °C	37 %	64 km/h	0.3 mm	High 30
27 Jul after	15.0 °C	43 %	57 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
28 Jul after	16.3 °C	41 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
29 Jul after	20.3 °C	30 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
30 Jul after	22.7 °C	32 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
31 Jul after	22.9 °C	34 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
1 Aug after	22.1 °C	47 %	31 km/h	1.7 mm	Low 7

Before and after, from space

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Before · 22 Jun 2022

After · 6 Jul 2022

Before After

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 · 337Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Goose fire last?: It burned between 29 June 2022 and 29 June 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 4,690 hectares (46.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?: The fire only entered Yukon-Koyukuk (5,001 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.2 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.

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