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Maker Fire, March 2016 Osage

Out · last detection 15 Mar 2016, 18:58 UTC

The fire started on 14 March 2016 in Osage, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 4,025 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 31th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 86 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
4,025ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
14 Mar 2016 – 14 Mar 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
14 Mar
2016
Heat detections
71
in a single hotspot: 38 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
204MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

15 Mar 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Mar14 Mar

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

29°high
77km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 10 Apr.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Osage where it started
    4,000 ha reached on 14 Mar
    0.7 %

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 Mar 26.6 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
15 Mar after 22.3 °C 22 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
16 Mar after 17.7 °C 22 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
17 Mar after 19.8 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 5
18 Mar after 11.1 °C 45 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
19 Mar after 11.7 °C 28 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
20 Mar after 11.0 °C 32 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
21 Mar after 18.6 °C 28 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
22 Mar after 23.1 °C 35 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
23 Mar after 26.3 °C 9 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
24 Mar after 13.7 °C 35 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Mar after 17.0 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
26 Mar after 21.3 °C 38 % 39 km/h 0.6 mm Low 10
27 Mar after 13.2 °C 42 % 49 km/h 6.2 mm Very low 1
28 Mar after 19.6 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
29 Mar after 22.4 °C 36 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
30 Mar after 24.4 °C 60 % 51 km/h 19.6 mm Very low 1
31 Mar after 17.9 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
1 Apr after 15.7 °C 30 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
2 Apr after 21.2 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
3 Apr after 25.5 °C 23 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
4 Apr after 25.8 °C 26 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
5 Apr after 28.6 °C 27 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
6 Apr after 21.3 °C 25 % 77 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
7 Apr after 23.6 °C 19 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
8 Apr after 21.1 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
9 Apr after 23.3 °C 32 % 49 km/h 0.4 mm High 23
10 Apr after 26.3 °C 49 % 62 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 14

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Mar 2016
After · 21 Mar 2016

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 · 71Every 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 Maker fire last?
It burned between 14 March 2016 and 14 March 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 4,025 hectares (40.2 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Osage (4,000 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 77 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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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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.