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Rampike Fire, July 2018 Shoshone, Sanders

Out · last detection 1 Aug 2018, 20:48 UTC

The fire started on 31 July 2018 in Shoshone, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,491 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 175th largest in Idaho since 2016 (of 379 with a page). Number 254 in United States in 2018, of 511.

Burnt area
1,491ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
31 Jul 2018 – 31 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
31 Jul
2018
Heat detections
524
in a single hotspot: 493 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
66MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 Jul31 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

1

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high
63km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 16 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Shoshone where it started
    1,313 ha reached on 1 Aug
    0.2 %
  2. Sanders
    184 ha reached on 14 Aug
    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)
31 Jul 31.7 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Aug after 29.5 °C 11 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Aug after 26.2 °C 14 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
3 Aug after 21.1 °C 24 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
4 Aug after 22.2 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Aug after 25.7 °C 20 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
6 Aug after 27.1 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Aug after 28.9 °C 16 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
8 Aug after 31.9 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Aug after 35.1 °C 9 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Aug after 37.6 °C 7 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
11 Aug after 28.9 °C 24 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
12 Aug after 20.6 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Aug after 24.4 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Aug after 26.9 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Aug after 28.9 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Aug after 29.2 °C 13 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
17 Aug after 26.3 °C 22 % 43 km/h 1.5 mm High 22
18 Aug after 25.6 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Aug after 23.8 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.4 mm High 32
20 Aug after 18.9 °C 40 % 63 km/h 0.6 mm High 32
21 Aug after 23.6 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
22 Aug after 25.5 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
23 Aug after 23.3 °C 24 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
24 Aug after 17.4 °C 32 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Aug after 17.6 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
26 Aug after 12.4 °C 58 % 48 km/h 5.7 mm Very low 2
27 Aug after 13.0 °C 48 % 44 km/h 9.6 mm Very low 0
28 Aug after 17.7 °C 40 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
29 Aug after 22.5 °C 25 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
30 Aug after 19.0 °C 36 % 55 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 19
31 Aug after 18.0 °C 33 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
1 Sept after 18.7 °C 28 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
2 Sept after 20.2 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Sept after 20.0 °C 24 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
4 Sept after 21.4 °C 22 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
5 Sept after 25.1 °C 14 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
6 Sept after 27.4 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Sept after 25.4 °C 15 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Sept after 19.7 °C 29 % 55 km/h 0.2 mm High 32
9 Sept after 19.8 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
10 Sept after 16.6 °C 38 % 61 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 16
11 Sept after 12.5 °C 45 % 37 km/h 2.3 mm Very low 4
12 Sept after 13.1 °C 47 % 37 km/h 1.7 mm Very low 4
13 Sept after 10.7 °C 52 % 44 km/h 0.5 mm Low 6
14 Sept after 15.2 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 12
15 Sept after 18.0 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
16 Sept after 13.2 °C 38 % 52 km/h 2.2 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jul 2018
After · 7 Aug 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.

Detections table · 524Every 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 Rampike fire last?
It burned between 31 July 2018 and 31 July 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 1,491 hectares (14.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Shoshone (1,313 ha, 0.2 %); Sanders (184 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 63 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class 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.

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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.