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Pittsburg fire, February 2017 Pittsburg

Out · last measured on 15 Feb 2017

The fire started on 15 February 2017 in Pittsburg, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 890 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 159th largest in Oklahoma since 2016 (of 284 with a page). Number 415 in United States in 2017, of 619.

Burnt area
890ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
15 Feb 2017 – 15 Feb 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
15 Feb
2017
Heat detections
29
in a single hotspot: 25 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Feb15 Feb

The weather it burned in

31°high
76km/h · peak gust
2%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.2 mm on 2 Apr.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Pittsburg where it started
    892 ha reached on 19 Mar
    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)
15 Feb 13.1 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
16 Feb after 18.3 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
17 Feb after 18.5 °C 38 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
18 Feb after 19.1 °C 59 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 4
19 Feb after 20.4 °C 74 % 40 km/h 2.0 mm Very low 1
20 Feb after 18.7 °C 70 % 69 km/h 5.6 mm Very low 0
21 Feb after 21.8 °C 41 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
22 Feb after 26.7 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
23 Feb after 29.0 °C 31 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
24 Feb after 22.4 °C 34 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
25 Feb after 9.3 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
26 Feb after 14.6 °C 40 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
27 Feb after 19.7 °C 73 % 53 km/h 0.9 mm Very low 3
28 Feb after 23.2 °C 67 % 64 km/h 0.5 mm Low 6
1 Mar after 23.5 °C 13 % 71 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 20
2 Mar after 17.6 °C 3 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
3 Mar after 20.3 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
4 Mar after 17.9 °C 30 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
5 Mar after 15.1 °C 68 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
6 Mar after 25.2 °C 58 % 76 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 12
7 Mar after 21.6 °C 2 % 67 km/h 13.4 mm Very low 3
8 Mar after 23.1 °C 15 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
9 Mar after 24.2 °C 51 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
10 Mar after 19.9 °C 36 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
11 Mar after 15.2 °C 50 % 41 km/h 4.4 mm Very low 1
12 Mar after 11.4 °C 53 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 1
13 Mar after 8.1 °C 42 % 54 km/h 3.5 mm Very low 1
14 Mar after 10.2 °C 42 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
15 Mar after 14.3 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
16 Mar after 18.4 °C 64 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
17 Mar after 23.4 °C 66 % 50 km/h 0.2 mm Low 6
18 Mar after 27.1 °C 44 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
19 Mar after 29.1 °C 43 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
20 Mar after 30.6 °C 38 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
21 Mar after 28.5 °C 41 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
22 Mar after 20.7 °C 53 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
23 Mar after 27.5 °C 31 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
24 Mar after 22.7 °C 35 % 72 km/h 1.9 mm Low 9
25 Mar after 15.9 °C 48 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
26 Mar after 25.2 °C 40 % 45 km/h 6.7 mm Very low 2
27 Mar after 20.0 °C 51 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
28 Mar after 22.8 °C 61 % 57 km/h 13.2 mm Very low 0
29 Mar after 26.6 °C 26 % 65 km/h 25.6 mm Very low 1
30 Mar after 16.1 °C 52 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
31 Mar after 21.4 °C 49 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
1 Apr after 25.7 °C 34 % 46 km/h 0.5 mm Low 9
2 Apr after 18.6 °C 69 % 36 km/h 10.2 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Feb 2017
After · 22 Feb 2017

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 · 29Every 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 Pittsburg fire last?
It burned between 15 February 2017 and 15 February 2017: 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 890 hectares (8.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Pittsburg (892 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.6 °C, humidity dropped to 2 % and gusts hit 76 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
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.