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Slim Fire, June 2017 Coconino

Out · last detection 2 Jun 2017, 08:53 UTC

The fire started on 1 June 2017 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,311 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 176th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 330 in United States in 2017, of 619.

Burnt area
1,311ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
1 Jun 2017 – 1 Jun 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
1 Jun
2017
Heat detections
160
in a single hotspot: 456 MW
Danger at start
27
High · FWI index
Energy released
2MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jun1 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2

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

The weather it burned in

29°high
49km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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
    1,290 ha reached on 2 Jun
    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)
1 Jun 23.9 °C 14 % 48 km/h 0.6 mm High 27
2 Jun after 24.4 °C 13 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jun after 26.8 °C 10 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Jun after 28.3 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
5 Jun after 28.5 °C 13 % 41 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 38
6 Jun after 28.7 °C 12 % 45 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 44
7 Jun after 27.7 °C 16 % 49 km/h 2.1 mm High 25
8 Jun after 27.2 °C 9 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 Jun after 27.2 °C 14 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
10 Jun after 25.6 °C 5 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
11 Jun after 23.4 °C 10 % 72 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
12 Jun after 20.9 °C 15 % 75 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
13 Jun after 24.9 °C 5 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Jun after 29.3 °C 3 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
15 Jun after 30.9 °C 3 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
16 Jun after 31.2 °C 4 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
17 Jun after 32.5 °C 4 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 May 2017
After · 8 Jun 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 · 160Every 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 Slim fire last?
It burned between 1 June 2017 and 1 June 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 1,311 hectares (13.1 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (1,290 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.7 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very 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.