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Pinchot Fire, August 2016 Coconino

Out · last measured on 29 Aug 2016

The fire started on 29 August 2016 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,562 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 164th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 193 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
1,562ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
29 Aug 2016 – 29 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
29 Aug
2016
Heat detections
24
in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start
13
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Aug29 Aug

The weather it burned in

27°high
70km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.7 mm on 25 Oct.

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
    1,547 ha reached on 17 Sept
    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)
29 Aug 24.0 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
30 Aug after 25.6 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
31 Aug after 26.2 °C 22 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
1 Sept after 23.0 °C 47 % 31 km/h 8.3 mm Very low 1
2 Sept after 23.4 °C 38 % 36 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 1
3 Sept after 22.7 °C 31 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
4 Sept after 23.0 °C 9 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
5 Sept after 24.3 °C 14 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
6 Sept after 23.7 °C 22 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Sept after 19.5 °C 46 % 25 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 5
8 Sept after 25.2 °C 21 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
9 Sept after 26.9 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
10 Sept after 26.4 °C 17 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
11 Sept after 25.1 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Sept after 20.9 °C 30 % 62 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
13 Sept after 20.7 °C 40 % 70 km/h 6.9 mm Very low 4
14 Sept after 21.2 °C 25 % 61 km/h 1.5 mm Low 9
15 Sept after 22.0 °C 14 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
16 Sept after 22.3 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
17 Sept after 24.3 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
18 Sept after 26.2 °C 10 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
19 Sept after 26.5 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
20 Sept after 19.3 °C 31 % 26 km/h 2.8 mm Very low 4
21 Sept after 22.5 °C 46 % 53 km/h 2.4 mm Very low 4
22 Sept after 18.2 °C 43 % 61 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 4
23 Sept after 15.7 °C 19 % 66 km/h 2.0 mm Very low 5
24 Sept after 18.7 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
25 Sept after 19.5 °C 19 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
26 Sept after 21.5 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 20
27 Sept after 17.9 °C 43 % 38 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 1
28 Sept after 18.9 °C 48 % 47 km/h 2.6 mm Very low 2
29 Sept after 17.7 °C 59 % 32 km/h 7.4 mm Very low 0
30 Sept after 19.3 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
1 Oct after 20.0 °C 34 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 5
2 Oct after 16.9 °C 43 % 53 km/h 14.6 mm Very low 0
3 Oct after 15.7 °C 21 % 67 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 3
4 Oct after 16.1 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
5 Oct after 16.5 °C 27 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
6 Oct after 18.1 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
7 Oct after 21.0 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
8 Oct after 17.7 °C 43 % 30 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 1
9 Oct after 18.8 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.7 mm Very low 2
10 Oct after 20.1 °C 28 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
11 Oct after 20.1 °C 20 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
12 Oct after 19.8 °C 18 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
13 Oct after 20.5 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
14 Oct after 21.4 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
15 Oct after 21.1 °C 16 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
16 Oct after 19.4 °C 20 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Oct after 19.2 °C 27 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Oct after 18.8 °C 26 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
19 Oct after 18.1 °C 15 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
20 Oct after 20.6 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Oct after 22.2 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Oct after 21.2 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.4 mm High 26
23 Oct after 21.0 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
24 Oct after 17.6 °C 33 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
25 Oct after 17.8 °C 43 % 39 km/h 5.7 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Aug 2016
After · 5 Sept 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 · 24Every 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 Pinchot fire last?
It burned between 29 August 2016 and 29 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 1,562 hectares (15.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (1,547 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.9 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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.

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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.