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Spring Fire, June 2019 Catron

Out · last measured on 5 Jun 2019

The fire started on 5 June 2019 in Catron, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,331 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 100th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 173 in United States in 2019, of 367.

Burnt area
1,331ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
5 Jun 2019 – 5 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
5 Jun
2019
Heat detections
40
in a single hotspot: 79 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Jun5 Jun

The weather it burned in

29°high
56km/h · peak gust
6%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 13 Jun.

This area had burned before

44% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 588 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Catron where it started
    1,329 ha reached on 7 Jun
    0.1 %

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)
5 Jun 21.8 °C 18 % 45 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 39
6 Jun after 27.5 °C 9 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
7 Jun after 28.6 °C 6 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
8 Jun after 28.1 °C 7 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
9 Jun after 29.3 °C 6 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
10 Jun after 15.2 °C 49 % 41 km/h 0.7 mm High 25
11 Jun after 28.7 °C 9 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Jun after 28.5 °C 9 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
13 Jun after 27.5 °C 16 % 56 km/h 1.3 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 May 2019
After · 12 Jun 2019

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 · 40Every 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 Spring fire last?
It burned between 5 June 2019 and 5 June 2019: 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 1,331 hectares (13.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Catron (1,329 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.3 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, 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.

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.