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Manzanita Fire, June 2017 Riverside

Out · last detection 27 Jun 2017, 09:25 UTC

The fire started on 26 June 2017 in Riverside, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 2,555 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 184th largest in California since 2016 (of 442 with a page). Number 228 in United States in 2017, of 619.

The power measured by the satellite is low (3.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
2,555ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
≈ 2days
26 Jun 2017 – 27 Jun 2017
Counties hit
1
counties
Started on
26 Jun
2017
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 4 MW
Danger at start
59
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
44MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jun27 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

27 Jun 2017 · 44 MW · 22

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

37°high
52km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 49 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.6% of the area of London (26 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each county

  1. Riverside where it started
    2,569 ha reached on 27 Jun
    0.1 %

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 2015
Built-up area0.14 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.14 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, 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.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
26 Jun 37.4 °C 11 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
27 Jun 35.7 °C 11 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
28 Jun after 31.9 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
29 Jun after 29.9 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Jun after 32.2 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Jul after 31.3 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
2 Jul after 32.1 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
3 Jul after 34.6 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
4 Jul after 36.2 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Jul after 36.3 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
6 Jul after 37.4 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
7 Jul after 39.7 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 49

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Jun 2017
After · 4 Jul 2017

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 · 22Every 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 Manzanita Fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (26 June 2017). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 27 June 2017 (2 days from 26 June 2017), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 2,555 hectares (25.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Riverside (2,569 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 59, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: MTBS (US Geological Survey and US Forest Service), official.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 22 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 2015, 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.