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Mcbride Fire, April 2022 Lincoln

Out · last detection 13 Apr 2022, 20:12 UTC

The fire started on 12 April 2022 in Lincoln, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 2,575 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 63th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 168 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
2,575ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
12 Apr 2022 – 12 Apr 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
12 Apr
2022
Heat detections
98
in a single hotspot: 51 MW
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
536MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Apr 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Apr12 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

1213

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

The weather it burned in

21°high
99km/h · peak gust
5%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 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.

What happened to each town

  1. Lincoln where it started
    2,570 ha reached on 12 Apr
    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)
12 Apr 17.9 °C 18 % 99 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 50
13 Apr after 11.1 °C 6 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Apr after 18.1 °C 7 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
15 Apr after 21.1 °C 5 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Apr after 18.9 °C 8 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
17 Apr after 22.3 °C 6 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Apr after 21.9 °C 8 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Apr after 21.6 °C 14 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Apr after 23.4 °C 9 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
21 Apr after 23.9 °C 8 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
22 Apr after 23.6 °C 11 % 84 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
23 Apr after 16.4 °C 14 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
24 Apr after 18.9 °C 11 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
25 Apr after 17.4 °C 15 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Apr 2022
After · 19 Apr 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.

Detections table · 98Every 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 Mcbride fire last?
It burned between 12 April 2022 and 12 April 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 2,575 hectares (25.8 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Lincoln (2,570 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 21.1 °C, humidity dropped to 5 % and gusts hit 99 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very 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.