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Osgood Fire, July 2020 Humboldt

Out · last measured on 23 Jul 2020

The fire started on 23 July 2020 in Humboldt, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 477 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 225th largest in Nevada since 2016 (of 237 with a page). Number 406 in United States in 2020, of 441.

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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
477ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
23 Jul 2020 – 23 Jul 2020
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
23 Jul
2020
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
32km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 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. Humboldt where it started
    478 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)
23 Jul 29.4 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 48
24 Jul after 31.1 °C 13 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Jul after 32.7 °C 11 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
26 Jul after 33.7 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
27 Jul after 30.0 °C 14 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
28 Jul after 32.3 °C 13 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
29 Jul after 36.1 °C 7 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
30 Jul after 37.5 °C 4 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
31 Jul after 36.3 °C 4 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
1 Aug after 36.7 °C 3 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
2 Aug after 35.7 °C 5 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jul 2020
After · 30 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.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Osgood fire last?
It burned between 23 July 2020 and 23 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 477 hectares (4.8 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Humboldt (478 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.4 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: MTBS (US Geological Survey and US Forest Service), official.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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.

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.