How long did the Jack fire last?

It burned between 29 May 2016 and 29 May 2016: 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 14,530 hectares (145.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.

Which counties burned?

The fire only entered Coconino (14,401 ha, 0.3 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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.

US · United States · 2016-05-29 → 2016-05-29

Jack Fire, May 2016 Coconino

Out · last detection 30 May 2016, 20:14 UTC

The fire started on 29 May 2016 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 14,530 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 16th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 25 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area: 14,530ha; official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration: 1day; 29 May 2016 – 29 May 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; counties
Started on: 29 May; 2016
Heat detections: 1,005; in a single hotspot: 71 MW
Danger at start: 30; High · FWI index
Energy released: 71MW; sum of detected power

Play back 30 May 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 May29 May

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

35°high

67km/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: 4.3 mm on 28 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Coconino where it started

14,401 ha reached on 29 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)
29 May	23.7 °C	10 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
30 May after	22.2 °C	11 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
31 May after	24.1 °C	8 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
1 Jun after	26.6 °C	9 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
2 Jun after	29.2 °C	6 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
3 Jun after	30.7 °C	5 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
4 Jun after	31.2 °C	8 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
5 Jun after	31.8 °C	7 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
6 Jun after	30.5 °C	7 %	61 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
7 Jun after	28.7 °C	7 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
8 Jun after	30.2 °C	12 %	41 km/h	0.3 mm	Very high 49
9 Jun after	29.5 °C	14 %	48 km/h	0.1 mm	Extreme 52
10 Jun after	29.4 °C	13 %	58 km/h	0.6 mm	Very high 43
11 Jun after	24.7 °C	26 %	50 km/h	1.5 mm	High 24
12 Jun after	25.1 °C	16 %	64 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
13 Jun after	23.7 °C	12 %	66 km/h	0.7 mm	Very high 50
14 Jun after	25.7 °C	10 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
15 Jun after	24.9 °C	8 %	67 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
16 Jun after	25.9 °C	11 %	57 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
17 Jun after	28.5 °C	7 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
18 Jun after	32.5 °C	4 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
19 Jun after	34.7 °C	7 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
20 Jun after	35.5 °C	6 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
21 Jun after	32.4 °C	12 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
22 Jun after	32.0 °C	13 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
23 Jun after	30.9 °C	13 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
24 Jun after	30.0 °C	13 %	50 km/h	0.4 mm	Extreme 59
25 Jun after	30.1 °C	14 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
26 Jun after	32.4 °C	10 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
27 Jun after	28.7 °C	16 %	47 km/h	0.3 mm	Extreme 57
28 Jun after	29.0 °C	27 %	36 km/h	4.3 mm	Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

↔

Before · 22 May 2016

After · 5 Jun 2016

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 · 1,005Every 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

Other fires nearby

All fires in United States ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jack fire last?: It burned between 29 May 2016 and 29 May 2016: 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 14,530 hectares (145.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?: The fire only entered Coconino (14,401 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
NIFC · Fire maps ↗

Does something look wrong on this page?

This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.

Report an error

What do you think is wrong?

Dates or duration Place or towns Burned area Name It was not a wildfire Same fire as another page Something else

What really happened?

Your connection to the fire (optional) Email (optional)

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 911.

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.

Where it burned