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Kid Fire, August 2022 Okanogan

Out · last measured on 30 Aug 2022

The fire started on 30 August 2022 in Okanogan, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 2,100 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 135th largest in Washington since 2016 (of 285 with a page). Number 200 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
2,100ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
30 Aug 2022 – 30 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
30 Aug
2022
Heat detections
840
in a single hotspot: 170 MW
Danger at start
21
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Aug30 Aug

The weather it burned in

25°high
64km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.1 mm on 21 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Okanogan where it started
    2,115 ha reached on 1 Sept
    0.2 %

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)
30 Aug 24.5 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
31 Aug after 23.7 °C 27 % 48 km/h 2.1 mm Low 8
1 Sept after 22.1 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
2 Sept after 25.1 °C 20 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Sept after 20.3 °C 42 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
4 Sept after 16.6 °C 44 % 54 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 20
5 Sept after 13.7 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 17
6 Sept after 21.2 °C 24 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
7 Sept after 15.8 °C 28 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
8 Sept after 13.5 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
9 Sept after 16.4 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
10 Sept after 20.8 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
11 Sept after 19.5 °C 35 % 48 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 15
12 Sept after 17.2 °C 43 % 28 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 2
13 Sept after 14.9 °C 52 % 29 km/h 5.8 mm Very low 0
14 Sept after 11.4 °C 63 % 23 km/h 7.4 mm Very low 0
15 Sept after 9.5 °C 64 % 29 km/h 0.6 mm Very low 0
16 Sept after 6.1 °C 74 % 43 km/h 3.4 mm Very low 0
17 Sept after 9.8 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
18 Sept after 13.5 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
19 Sept after 12.6 °C 41 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
20 Sept after 14.2 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
21 Sept after 16.2 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
22 Sept after 10.8 °C 46 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
23 Sept after 8.1 °C 67 % 28 km/h 0.5 mm Low 6
24 Sept after 16.2 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
25 Sept after 19.3 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
26 Sept after 19.9 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 15
27 Sept after 20.4 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
28 Sept after 13.3 °C 53 % 25 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 2
29 Sept after 9.8 °C 66 % 31 km/h 0.8 mm Very low 2
30 Sept after 15.1 °C 46 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
1 Oct after 17.5 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
2 Oct after 17.3 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
3 Oct after 18.7 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
4 Oct after 15.9 °C 37 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
5 Oct after 16.3 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
6 Oct after 17.9 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
7 Oct after 18.1 °C 31 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
8 Oct after 17.2 °C 29 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
9 Oct after 16.2 °C 24 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
10 Oct after 11.6 °C 52 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 Oct after 13.4 °C 40 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
12 Oct after 15.4 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
13 Oct after 16.9 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
14 Oct after 15.5 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
15 Oct after 16.1 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
16 Oct after 17.2 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
17 Oct after 16.1 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
18 Oct after 15.1 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
19 Oct after 13.5 °C 35 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
20 Oct after 5.6 °C 70 % 31 km/h 0.6 mm Low 9
21 Oct after 1.2 °C 82 % 36 km/h 5.1 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Aug 2022
After · 6 Sept 2022

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 1 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1043 µg/m³
Optical depth0.35
2829303112
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 · 840Every 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 Kid fire last?
It burned between 30 August 2022 and 30 August 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 2,100 hectares (21.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Okanogan (2,115 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.1 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.