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Rivers Edge Fire, July 2017 Brevard

Out · last measured on 8 Jul 2017

The fire started on 8 July 2017 in Brevard, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,177 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 63th largest in Florida since 2016 (of 148 with a page). Number 351 in United States in 2017, of 619.

Burnt area
1,177ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
8 Jul 2017 – 8 Jul 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
8 Jul
2017
Heat detections
68
in a single hotspot: 285 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Jul8 Jul

The weather it burned in

30°high
29km/h · peak gust
71%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.7 mm on 12 Jul.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 67 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Brevard where it started
    1,182 ha reached on 10 Jul
    0.4 %

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)
8 Jul 29.3 °C 74 % 23 km/h 2.6 mm Very low 1
9 Jul after 28.6 °C 77 % 27 km/h 8.9 mm Very low 0
10 Jul after 29.8 °C 73 % 29 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 1
11 Jul after 29.3 °C 71 % 27 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 1
12 Jul after 29.2 °C 75 % 43 km/h 5.7 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Jul 2017
After · 15 Jul 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 · 68Every 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 Rivers Edge fire last?
It burned between 8 July 2017 and 8 July 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 1,177 hectares (11.8 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Brevard (1,182 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.8 °C, humidity dropped to 71 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very low.
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.