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Scott Fire, June 2016 Coconino

Out · last measured on 28 Jun 2016

The fire started on 28 June 2016 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,012 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 223th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 259 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
1,012ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
28 Jun 2016 – 28 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
28 Jun
2016
Heat detections
137
in a single hotspot: 228 MW
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun28 Jun

The weather it burned in

32°high
86km/h · peak gust
6%lowest humidity

It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 mm on 20 Jul.

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
    1,014 ha reached on 6 Jul
    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)
28 Jun 31.9 °C 15 % 50 km/h 4.0 mm Moderate 20
29 Jun after 29.1 °C 16 % 43 km/h 1.1 mm High 26
30 Jun after 25.3 °C 30 % 44 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
1 Jul after 26.0 °C 38 % 44 km/h 5.1 mm Low 5
2 Jul after 25.1 °C 36 % 54 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 17
3 Jul after 29.6 °C 17 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Jul after 30.8 °C 13 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
5 Jul after 31.3 °C 8 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
6 Jul after 30.8 °C 9 % 72 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
7 Jul after 30.7 °C 10 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
8 Jul after 31.6 °C 10 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
9 Jul after 31.8 °C 11 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
10 Jul after 31.2 °C 7 % 86 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
11 Jul after 31.2 °C 7 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
12 Jul after 31.2 °C 6 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
13 Jul after 32.3 °C 6 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
14 Jul after 33.0 °C 8 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
15 Jul after 33.6 °C 6 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
16 Jul after 31.8 °C 11 % 74 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
17 Jul after 31.2 °C 14 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
18 Jul after 27.7 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 44
19 Jul after 27.7 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Jul after 27.2 °C 23 % 31 km/h 2.5 mm Moderate 15

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2016
After · 5 Jul 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 · 137Every 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 Scott fire last?
It burned between 28 June 2016 and 28 June 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 1,012 hectares (10.1 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (1,014 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.3 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 86 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 65, 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.