How long did the Hale fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 April 2019 to 16 August 2019 (123 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 April 2019 to 16 April 2019.

How much area did it burn?

The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 447 hectares (4.5 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.

Which counties burned?

The fire only entered Hale (448 ha, 0.3 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 93 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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.

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Hale fire, April 2019 Hale

Out · last measured on 16 Aug 2019

The fire started on 16 April 2019 in Hale, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 123 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 447 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 8th largest in Alabama since 2016 (of 14 with a page). Number 350 in United States in 2019, of 367.

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Date: 16 Apr 2019 – 16 Aug 2019

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Source: MTBS (USGS/USFS) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date: 16 Apr 2019 – 16 Aug 2019

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16 Apr 2019

First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.

Source: MTBS (USGS/USFS) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date: 16 Apr 2019

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Danger at the start

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7.0FWI · low

Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 1.

Source: WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
Date: 16 Apr 2019, local noon
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Weather during the fire

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36.8°C · 35% RH

High of 36.8 °C and minimum humidity of 35% on 9 July 2019; gusts of 93 km/h on 18 April 2019.

Source: weather model at the fire’s grid cell
Date: 16 Apr 2019 – 16 Aug 2019
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fecha	tmax_c	tmin_c	hr_min_pct	viento_max_kmh	racha_max_kmh	precip_mm	fwi	clase_fwi	dentro_del_incendio
2019-04-16	25.8	9	33	11.1	27	0	7	bajo	1
2019-04-17	25.1	13.1	46	16.4	30.6	0	8.2	bajo	1
2019-04-18	25.6	17.4	56	20	92.9	23.5	12.7	moderado	1
2019-04-19	18.1	8.3	76	25	48.2	5.6	0	muy_bajo	1
2019-04-20	19.3	8.6	30	23.4	54.4	0	2.2	muy_bajo	1
2019-04-21	25.4	6.5	28	9.1	20.5	0	5.9	bajo	1
2019-04-22	27.7	9	30	9.6	20.2	0	9.4	bajo	1
2019-04-23	26.9	12.1	37	10.3	28.1	0	12.2	moderado	1
2019-04-24	28	15.9	40	14.1	33.8	0.1	13.9	moderado	1
2019-04-25	20.8	16.7	78	14.3	39.6	32.2	1.9	muy_bajo	1
2019-04-26	24.9	13	31	21.3	49	0	0.9	muy_bajo	1
2019-04-27	26.3	9.9	31	17.1	36.7	0	7.8	bajo	1
2019-04-28	26.6	14.5	56	12	25.9	0	6.8	bajo	1
2019-04-29	28.8	15.7	37	13.4	33.5	0	12.9	moderado	1
2019-04-30	29.3	15.9	44	14.4	35.3	0	14.3	moderado	1
2019-05-01	29.4	18.8	51	17.3	42.8	0	17.2	moderado	1
2019-05-02	29.3	19.1	43	12.4	32.8	0.2	14.5	moderado	1
2019-05-03	29.5	19.9	42	10.5	26.3	0	13.2	moderado	1
2019-05-04	26.5	19.6	73	10	45.4	13.3	0.9	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-05	24	16	53	13.1	32.8	0	0.6	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-06	28.4	13.8	36	9.8	21.2	0	2.7	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-07	29.5	15.7	43	8.6	14.4	0	6.3	bajo	1
2019-05-08	32.4	17.6	33	18.7	47.2	0.3	19.3	moderado	1
2019-05-09	24.6	18.6	70	18.1	49	4.8	1.6	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-10	24.1	16.9	67	7.6	22	5.3	1.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-11	24.7	20	85	17.4	58	26.6	0	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-12	25.3	18.2	70	11.6	37.8	24.3	0.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-13	24.3	15.5	42	12.7	32.4	0	0.4	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-14	25	12.9	40	12.6	32.8	0	3.8	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-15	26.9	13.1	47	10.8	31.7	0	4.2	muy_bajo	1
2019-05-16	31.4	19.2	46	10.5	25.6	0.3	7.4	bajo	1
2019-05-17	31.5	18.5	42	10.8	20.5	0.3	9.6	bajo	1
2019-05-18	31.3	20.1	39	16.6	43.2	0	16.1	moderado	1
2019-05-19	30.1	19.4	37	17.9	43.2	0.5	20.1	moderado	1
2019-05-20	31.6	19.5	44	10.5	19.4	0.4	7.1	bajo	1
2019-05-21	33	20.9	36	16.4	42.8	0	20.4	moderado	1
2019-05-22	33.1	21.2	36	13.4	34.6	0	21.1	moderado	1
2019-05-23	33.9	20.7	36	8.8	22.3	0	16.2	moderado	1
2019-05-24	34	23.2	36	8.4	23.4	0	18.8	moderado	1
2019-05-25	35.2	21.7	30	8.1	25.6	0	21.6	alto	1
2019-05-26	35.9	22.2	27	9.3	24.1	0	24.1	alto	1
2019-05-27	34.7	23.5	30	13.6	38.9	0	30.5	alto	1
2019-05-28	34.8	22.9	29	14.3	35.6	0	31.3	alto	1
2019-05-29	34	22	29	16.3	42.1	0	37	alto	1
2019-05-30	34	21.4	24	15.9	38.2	0	36.8	alto	1
2019-05-31	33.9	23	25	14.6	42.1	0	37.6	alto	1
2019-06-01	33	20.3	30	14.3	35.6	0	34.4	alto	1
2019-06-02	35.1	20	22	9.3	27.4	0	32.3	alto	1
2019-06-03	34.6	21	30	11.3	32.4	0	36.5	alto	1
2019-06-04	33.5	22.7	37	10.2	19.8	0	28.1	alto	1
2019-06-05	29.9	23.2	59	10	30.2	9.9	23.7	alto	1
2019-06-06	26.7	22	76	16.4	43.6	35.2	0	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-07	29.2	22.5	63	16.4	37.1	15.2	0.9	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-08	29.3	22.1	61	11.5	31.3	8.3	0.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-09	30.2	22.4	57	11	24.1	1.4	0.8	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-10	31.5	22.3	50	16.3	42.8	2	2.3	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-11	28.8	19.2	47	16	33.1	0	6.8	bajo	1
2019-06-12	28	18	42	11.3	28.8	0	9.9	bajo	1
2019-06-13	28.4	17.4	38	11.5	33.5	0	14.6	moderado	1
2019-06-14	30.2	16.5	33	11.8	25.9	0	13.3	moderado	1
2019-06-15	33	19.8	38	14.2	32	0	19.4	moderado	1
2019-06-16	34.1	23.2	41	13.8	30.2	0.2	16.9	moderado	1
2019-06-17	34	22.8	37	10	28.8	0.4	18.1	moderado	1
2019-06-18	26.9	23	79	11.9	31	18.4	0.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-19	32.9	23	48	15.5	38.5	0.7	3.4	muy_bajo	1
2019-06-20	32.1	23	58	15.6	63.4	1.3	9.1	bajo	1
2019-06-21	35	23.9	42	14.3	34.6	0.3	11.8	moderado	1
2019-06-22	33.3	24.3	47	15.5	37.4	1.8	13	moderado	1
2019-06-23	34.6	23.3	40	13.7	39.2	0.4	11.6	moderado	1
2019-06-24	31.2	23	46	18.3	58.7	7.2	5.5	bajo	1
2019-06-25	33.3	22.5	44	9.2	26.6	0	10.5	bajo	1
2019-06-26	30.6	23.2	51	11.6	41	0.4	11.8	moderado	1
2019-06-27	32.6	22.3	48	14.8	37.8	3.5	13.9	moderado	1
2019-06-28	32	20.6	39	7.8	23.4	1.7	6.2	bajo	1
2019-06-29	33.4	22.1	41	9.4	22	0.2	9.1	bajo	1
2019-06-30	32.3	22.2	51	5.2	23	4.7	8.8	bajo	1
2019-07-01	34	23.4	48	8.8	26.6	0.4	5.3	bajo	1
2019-07-02	34.2	24.3	46	10.6	24.8	0.2	13.4	moderado	1
2019-07-03	30.8	24.2	51	6.9	22	2.9	2.5	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-04	33.3	23.8	53	10.3	25.2	0.5	8.2	bajo	1
2019-07-05	35.4	24.4	34	12.4	33.1	0	20.6	moderado	1
2019-07-06	36	24.4	34	13.7	34.6	0	19.3	moderado	1
2019-07-07	33.9	24.3	42	14.8	41.8	0	26.9	alto	1
2019-07-08	34.1	23.9	46	9.7	29.2	0.9	21.2	moderado	1
2019-07-09	36.8	24.8	35	9.1	25.2	0	22.9	alto	1
2019-07-10	36	26.2	51	10.3	30.6	3.7	20.5	moderado	1
2019-07-11	34.2	25.2	52	12.1	28.4	1.1	4	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-12	33.8	25.9	49	14.3	35.3	4.7	17.2	moderado	1
2019-07-13	30.4	24.4	57	16.6	48.6	1.3	4.3	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-14	30	23.8	61	13.7	41	16.7	2.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-15	29	23.4	67	13.7	35.6	2.7	0.1	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-16	32.7	24.2	54	15.5	47.9	0.1	3.6	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-17	33.4	24.7	49	11.2	32.4	0.3	8.7	bajo	1
2019-07-18	33.4	25	47	10	26.3	2	11.1	bajo	1
2019-07-19	32.8	24.2	47	11	25.2	3	3.4	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-20	27	22.8	77	12.5	26.6	30.4	0	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-21	30.4	22.2	62	8.3	20.5	5.6	0.5	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-22	32.3	22.9	55	10	25.6	0	0.5	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-23	29.3	21.8	54	17.5	45	9.9	0.7	muy_bajo	1
2019-07-24	30.3	18.9	37	12.7	31.3	0	6.6	bajo	1
2019-07-25	31	18.7	37	11.1	23.8	0	10.4	bajo	1
2019-07-26	32.2	20.2	36	12.1	20.5	0	13.5	moderado	1
2019-07-27	33	21.5	35	11.1	18.4	0	15.3	moderado	1
2019-07-28	32.2	21.3	40	10.2	16.6	0	14.4	moderado	1
2019-07-29	32.9	21.1	39	9.9	18.4	0	16	moderado	1
2019-07-30	31.5	22.2	52	8.4	27.4	1.8	12.5	moderado	1
2019-07-31	32.6	22.2	46	6.9	21.2	0.2	12.2	moderado	1
2019-08-01	33.2	22.5	48	6.3	23.4	4.9	14.8	moderado	1
2019-08-02	32.1	21.9	52	8.3	18.4	5	0.8	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-03	30.6	22.4	54	10.9	18	1.5	2.5	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-04	32.1	22.4	53	7.8	19.4	9.8	3.8	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-05	32.3	21.8	59	6.8	24.8	0.4	0.8	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-06	34	23.3	49	9.3	24.8	0.1	6.1	bajo	1
2019-08-07	35.1	23.3	45	11	26.6	0	13.2	moderado	1
2019-08-08	32.5	23.3	57	10.5	37.8	0	14	moderado	1
2019-08-09	33	24.1	57	13.5	31	4.3	13.6	moderado	1
2019-08-10	31.7	23.3	64	14.1	35.6	3.9	1.4	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-11	33.9	24.2	53	8.3	24.5	0.2	2.6	muy_bajo	1
2019-08-12	36	24.8	40	7.3	18.7	0	9.7	bajo	1
2019-08-13	36.4	25.1	45	6.7	19.4	0.3	14.4	moderado	1
2019-08-14	34.4	24.6	54	11.9	29.5	0.2	15.7	moderado	1
2019-08-15	35.6	23.8	32	13.1	27.7	0	23	alto	1
2019-08-16	36.4	21.9	23	12	32	0	27.9	alto	1
2019-08-17	38	20.7	26	8.9	18.7	0	25.1	alto	0
2019-08-18	36.4	23.4	32	10.5	25.9	0	24.5	alto	0
2019-08-19	33.8	23.5	48	14	29.9	3	19.7	moderado	0

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We have the official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC) for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by county is there.

Burnt area: 447ha; official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration: 123days; 16 Apr 2019 – 16 Aug 2019
Counties hit: 1; counties
Started on: 16 Apr; 2019
Danger at start: 7; Low · FWI index

The weather it burned in

37°high

93km/h · peak gust

22%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.0 mm on 19 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each county

Hale where it started

448 ha

0.3 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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.

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Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
16 Apr	25.8 °C	33 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
17 Apr	25.1 °C	46 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
18 Apr	25.6 °C	56 %	93 km/h	23.5 mm	Moderate 13
19 Apr	18.1 °C	76 %	48 km/h	5.6 mm	Very low 0
20 Apr	19.3 °C	30 %	54 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 2
21 Apr	25.4 °C	28 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 6
22 Apr	27.7 °C	30 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
23 Apr	26.9 °C	37 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
24 Apr	28.0 °C	40 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 14
25 Apr	20.8 °C	78 %	40 km/h	32.2 mm	Very low 2
26 Apr	24.9 °C	31 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 1
27 Apr	26.3 °C	31 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
28 Apr	26.6 °C	56 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
29 Apr	28.8 °C	37 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
30 Apr	29.3 °C	44 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
1 May	29.4 °C	51 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
2 May	29.3 °C	43 %	33 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 14
3 May	29.5 °C	42 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
4 May	26.5 °C	73 %	45 km/h	13.3 mm	Very low 1
5 May	24.0 °C	53 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 1
6 May	28.4 °C	36 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 3
7 May	29.5 °C	43 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 6
8 May	32.4 °C	33 %	47 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 19
9 May	24.6 °C	70 %	49 km/h	4.8 mm	Very low 2
10 May	24.1 °C	67 %	22 km/h	5.3 mm	Very low 1
11 May	24.7 °C	85 %	58 km/h	26.6 mm	Very low 0
12 May	25.3 °C	70 %	38 km/h	24.3 mm	Very low 0
13 May	24.3 °C	42 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 0
14 May	25.0 °C	40 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 4
15 May	26.9 °C	47 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 4
16 May	31.4 °C	46 %	26 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 7
17 May	31.5 °C	42 %	20 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 10
18 May	31.3 °C	39 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
19 May	30.1 °C	37 %	43 km/h	0.5 mm	Moderate 20
20 May	31.6 °C	44 %	19 km/h	0.4 mm	Low 7
21 May	33.0 °C	36 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
22 May	33.1 °C	36 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
23 May	33.9 °C	36 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
24 May	34.0 °C	36 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
25 May	35.2 °C	30 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
26 May	35.9 °C	27 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
27 May	34.7 °C	30 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
28 May	34.8 °C	29 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
29 May	34.0 °C	29 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
30 May	34.0 °C	24 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
31 May	33.9 °C	25 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
1 Jun	33.0 °C	30 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
2 Jun	35.1 °C	22 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
3 Jun	34.6 °C	30 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
4 Jun	33.5 °C	37 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
5 Jun	29.9 °C	59 %	30 km/h	9.9 mm	High 24
6 Jun	26.7 °C	76 %	44 km/h	35.2 mm	Very low 0
7 Jun	29.2 °C	63 %	37 km/h	15.2 mm	Very low 1
8 Jun	29.3 °C	61 %	31 km/h	8.3 mm	Very low 0
9 Jun	30.2 °C	57 %	24 km/h	1.4 mm	Very low 1
10 Jun	31.5 °C	50 %	43 km/h	2.0 mm	Very low 2
11 Jun	28.8 °C	47 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
12 Jun	28.0 °C	42 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
13 Jun	28.4 °C	38 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
14 Jun	30.2 °C	33 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
15 Jun	33.0 °C	38 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
16 Jun	34.1 °C	41 %	30 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 17
17 Jun	34.0 °C	37 %	29 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 18
18 Jun	26.9 °C	79 %	31 km/h	18.4 mm	Very low 0
19 Jun	32.9 °C	48 %	38 km/h	0.7 mm	Very low 3
20 Jun	32.1 °C	58 %	63 km/h	1.3 mm	Low 9
21 Jun	35.0 °C	42 %	35 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 12
22 Jun	33.3 °C	47 %	37 km/h	1.8 mm	Moderate 13
23 Jun	34.6 °C	40 %	39 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 12
24 Jun	31.2 °C	46 %	59 km/h	7.2 mm	Low 6
25 Jun	33.3 °C	44 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
26 Jun	30.6 °C	51 %	41 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 12
27 Jun	32.6 °C	48 %	38 km/h	3.5 mm	Moderate 14
28 Jun	32.0 °C	39 %	23 km/h	1.7 mm	Low 6
29 Jun	33.4 °C	41 %	22 km/h	0.2 mm	Low 9
30 Jun	32.3 °C	51 %	23 km/h	4.7 mm	Low 9
1 Jul	34.0 °C	48 %	27 km/h	0.4 mm	Low 5
2 Jul	34.2 °C	46 %	25 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 13
3 Jul	30.8 °C	51 %	22 km/h	2.9 mm	Very low 2
4 Jul	33.3 °C	53 %	25 km/h	0.5 mm	Low 8
5 Jul	35.4 °C	34 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
6 Jul	36.0 °C	34 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
7 Jul	33.9 °C	42 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
8 Jul	34.1 °C	46 %	29 km/h	0.9 mm	Moderate 21
9 Jul	36.8 °C	35 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
10 Jul	36.0 °C	51 %	31 km/h	3.7 mm	Moderate 20
11 Jul	34.2 °C	52 %	28 km/h	1.1 mm	Very low 4
12 Jul	33.8 °C	49 %	35 km/h	4.7 mm	Moderate 17
13 Jul	30.4 °C	57 %	49 km/h	1.3 mm	Very low 4
14 Jul	30.0 °C	61 %	41 km/h	16.7 mm	Very low 2
15 Jul	29.0 °C	67 %	36 km/h	2.7 mm	Very low 0
16 Jul	32.7 °C	54 %	48 km/h	0.1 mm	Very low 4
17 Jul	33.4 °C	49 %	32 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 9
18 Jul	33.4 °C	47 %	26 km/h	2.0 mm	Low 11
19 Jul	32.8 °C	47 %	25 km/h	3.0 mm	Very low 3
20 Jul	27.0 °C	77 %	27 km/h	30.4 mm	Very low 0
21 Jul	30.4 °C	62 %	20 km/h	5.6 mm	Very low 0
22 Jul	32.3 °C	55 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 0
23 Jul	29.3 °C	54 %	45 km/h	9.9 mm	Very low 1
24 Jul	30.3 °C	37 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
25 Jul	31.0 °C	37 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
26 Jul	32.2 °C	36 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
27 Jul	33.0 °C	35 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
28 Jul	32.2 °C	40 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
29 Jul	32.9 °C	39 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
30 Jul	31.5 °C	52 %	27 km/h	1.8 mm	Moderate 12
31 Jul	32.6 °C	46 %	21 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 12
1 Aug	33.2 °C	48 %	23 km/h	4.9 mm	Moderate 15
2 Aug	32.1 °C	52 %	18 km/h	5.0 mm	Very low 1
3 Aug	30.6 °C	54 %	18 km/h	1.5 mm	Very low 2
4 Aug	32.1 °C	53 %	19 km/h	9.8 mm	Very low 4
5 Aug	32.3 °C	59 %	25 km/h	0.4 mm	Very low 1
6 Aug	34.0 °C	49 %	25 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 6
7 Aug	35.1 °C	45 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
8 Aug	32.5 °C	57 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
9 Aug	33.0 °C	57 %	31 km/h	4.3 mm	Moderate 14
10 Aug	31.7 °C	64 %	36 km/h	3.9 mm	Very low 1
11 Aug	33.9 °C	53 %	24 km/h	0.2 mm	Very low 3
12 Aug	36.0 °C	40 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
13 Aug	36.4 °C	45 %	19 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 14
14 Aug	34.4 °C	54 %	30 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 16
15 Aug	35.6 °C	32 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
16 Aug	36.4 °C	23 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
17 Aug after	38.0 °C	26 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
18 Aug after	36.4 °C	32 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
19 Aug after	33.8 °C	48 %	30 km/h	3.0 mm	Moderate 20

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 7.0, a minimum humidity of 33% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 8.

FWI at the start 7.0

Minimum humidity 33 %

Days without rain 1

this fire chosen twins rest of the area

How alike they must beTwins: 8

Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Same scale

Lawrence fire, March 2018

917 ha 5 days FWI 2.3 Min. humidity 33 % 159 km away, in 2018

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.3 mm on 17 Mar.

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What happened to them

Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 8. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

3.0 mmfirst rain

19 Aug3 days after it ended

93km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 16 Aug, and on 19 Aug 3.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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Before · 9 Apr 2019

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Hale fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 April 2019 to 16 August 2019 (123 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 April 2019 to 16 April 2019.
How much area did it burn?: The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 447 hectares (4.5 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?: The fire only entered Hale (448 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 93 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: MTBS (US Geological Survey and US Forest Service), official.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 16 April 2019 to 16 April 2019. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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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Burned area

Duration by satellite

Start

Danger at the start

Weather during the fire

What was saved on 24 October 2026

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Citation

A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives

CSV for this fire hale-alabama-2019-04.csv · daily, no individual hotspots

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Where it burned

The weather it burned in

This area had burned before

What happened to each county

People and buildings inside the perimeter

The weather day by day

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

Outlines of the closest twins

What happened to them

How it ended

How a twin is chosen

Before and after, from space

Frequently asked questions

Where to verify it

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