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Straw Fire, June 2017 Catron, Grant

Out · last measured on 9 Jun 2017

The fire started on 9 June 2017 in Catron, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 3,799 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 40th largest in New Mexico since 2016 (of 204 with a page). Number 172 in United States in 2017, of 619.

Burnt area
3,799ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
9 Jun 2017 – 9 Jun 2017
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
9 Jun
2017
Heat detections
254
in a single hotspot: 27 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Jun9 Jun

The weather it burned in

34°high
61km/h · peak gust
4%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.2 mm on 25 Jun.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 30 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Catron where it started
    3,763 ha reached on 11 Jun
    0.2 %
  2. Grant
    11 ha
    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)
9 Jun 28.0 °C 16 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
10 Jun after 27.1 °C 9 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Jun after 25.7 °C 7 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Jun after 25.2 °C 11 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Jun after 26.2 °C 6 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Jun after 29.5 °C 6 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
15 Jun after 31.0 °C 4 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
16 Jun after 32.4 °C 5 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
17 Jun after 33.5 °C 5 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
18 Jun after 33.4 °C 7 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
19 Jun after 33.8 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 41
20 Jun after 33.6 °C 18 % 36 km/h 2.3 mm High 22
21 Jun after 33.4 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
22 Jun after 33.8 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
23 Jun after 33.4 °C 9 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
24 Jun after 31.6 °C 22 % 41 km/h 9.1 mm Low 8
25 Jun after 27.9 °C 34 % 34 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Jun 2017
After · 16 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 · 254Every 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 Straw fire last?
It burned between 9 June 2017 and 9 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 3,799 hectares (38.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Catron (3,763 ha, 0.2 %); Grant (11 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, 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.