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Monument Fire, July 2020 Coconino

Out · last measured on 5 Jul 2020

The fire started on 5 July 2020 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 559 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 326th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 385 in United States in 2020, of 441.

Burnt area
559ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
5 Jul 2020 – 5 Jul 2020
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
5 Jul
2020
Heat detections
100
in a single hotspot: 413 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Jul5 Jul

The weather it burned in

35°high
62km/h · peak gust
6%lowest humidity

It had gone one day 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. Coconino where it started
    561 ha reached on 7 Jul
    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)
5 Jul 33.8 °C 8 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
6 Jul after 33.2 °C 6 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 69
7 Jul after 32.2 °C 6 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 80
8 Jul after 32.5 °C 6 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 80
9 Jul after 33.2 °C 8 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 75
10 Jul after 34.6 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 59
11 Jul after 35.1 °C 12 % 38 km/h 1.7 mm Very high 41
12 Jul after 35.4 °C 11 % 48 km/h 0.6 mm Extreme 59
13 Jul after 33.7 °C 13 % 62 km/h 0.1 mm Very extreme 74
14 Jul after 32.3 °C 15 % 56 km/h 0.9 mm Extreme 58
15 Jul after 33.7 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
16 Jul after 31.2 °C 13 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 61
17 Jul after 32.6 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
18 Jul after 33.4 °C 11 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
19 Jul after 33.0 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
20 Jul after 30.1 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 54
21 Jul after 31.0 °C 13 % 41 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 56
22 Jul after 29.3 °C 19 % 40 km/h 0.6 mm Extreme 50

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Jun 2020
After · 12 Jul 2020

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 · 100Every 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Monument fire last?
It burned between 5 July 2020 and 5 July 2020: 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 559 hectares (5.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (561 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 80, class Very 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.