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Maple Fire, August 2016 Park, Gallatin, Teton

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2016, 21:06 UTC

The fire started on 9 August 2016 in Park, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 6,513 hectares, spread across 3 counties.

We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.

Burnt area
6,513ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
9 Aug 2016 – 9 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
3
counties
Started on
9 Aug
2016
Heat detections
2,926
in a single hotspot: 1,009 MW
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
151MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Aug9 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

910

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

The weather it burned in

28°high
71km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 27 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 21 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Park where it started
    17,506 ha reached on 9 Aug
    1.0 %
  2. Gallatin
    2,567 ha reached on 16 Aug
    0.4 %
  3. Teton
    894 ha reached on 20 Aug
    0.1 %

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)
9 Aug 21.5 °C 19 % 63 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48
10 Aug after 20.7 °C 19 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Aug after 21.1 °C 19 % 41 km/h 1.0 mm High 26
12 Aug after 22.6 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm High 30
13 Aug after 25.3 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
14 Aug after 25.6 °C 19 % 48 km/h 1.0 mm High 31
15 Aug after 26.6 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Aug after 28.0 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Aug after 27.6 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.8 mm High 33
18 Aug after 23.2 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
19 Aug after 18.2 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
20 Aug after 23.9 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Aug after 25.7 °C 16 % 53 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 45
22 Aug after 24.7 °C 9 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
23 Aug after 20.1 °C 16 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Aug after 16.5 °C 34 % 42 km/h 2.0 mm Low 10
25 Aug after 19.0 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
26 Aug after 18.7 °C 29 % 38 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 12
27 Aug after 21.2 °C 22 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
28 Aug after 23.5 °C 20 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Aug after 26.0 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
30 Aug after 25.7 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
31 Aug after 26.3 °C 14 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Sept after 24.4 °C 21 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Sept after 21.5 °C 20 % 71 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
3 Sept after 16.7 °C 34 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Sept after 11.1 °C 59 % 40 km/h 9.5 mm Very low 0
5 Sept after 10.2 °C 68 % 49 km/h 4.4 mm Very low 0
6 Sept after 14.5 °C 27 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
7 Sept after 16.4 °C 25 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
8 Sept after 17.2 °C 24 % 64 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 19
9 Sept after 14.6 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
10 Sept after 19.8 °C 21 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
11 Sept after 19.0 °C 18 % 64 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
12 Sept after 8.5 °C 73 % 40 km/h 4.5 mm Very low 0
13 Sept after 11.8 °C 55 % 22 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 2
14 Sept after 9.3 °C 59 % 42 km/h 3.1 mm Very low 1
15 Sept after 14.2 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 4
16 Sept after 17.8 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm Low 9
17 Sept after 16.2 °C 32 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
18 Sept after 17.8 °C 41 % 63 km/h 1.7 mm Low 9
19 Sept after 18.8 °C 37 % 67 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 16
20 Sept after 20.5 °C 26 % 67 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
21 Sept after 17.5 °C 34 % 42 km/h 1.6 mm Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Aug 2016
After · 16 Aug 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 · 2,926Every 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 Maple fire last?
It burned between 9 August 2016 and 9 August 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 6,513 hectares (65.1 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 3 counties: Park (17,506 ha, 1.0 %); Gallatin (2,567 ha, 0.4 %); Teton (894 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.0 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 71 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, 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

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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.