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Mine Fire, December 2018 Webb

Out · last measured on 14 Dec 2018

The fire started on 14 December 2018 in Webb, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 494 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 287th largest in Texas since 2016 (of 327 with a page). Number 469 in United States in 2018, of 511.

We have the official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC) for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by county is there.

Burnt area
494ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
14 Dec 2018 – 14 Dec 2018
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
14 Dec
2018
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

19°high
68km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 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. Webb where it started
    438 ha
    0.0 %

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 Dec 18.7 °C 21 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Dec after 21.9 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
16 Dec after 22.0 °C 15 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
17 Dec after 23.5 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
18 Dec after 20.9 °C 53 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
19 Dec after 26.7 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
20 Dec after 22.0 °C 18 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Dec after 23.6 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Dec after 28.6 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Dec after 22.0 °C 40 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
24 Dec after 21.6 °C 54 % 33 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Dec 2018
After · 21 Dec 2018

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mine fire last?
It burned between 14 December 2018 and 14 December 2018: 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 494 hectares (4.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Webb (438 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 18.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 68 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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.