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Summit Fire, August 2022 Tulare

Out · last measured on 3 Aug 2022

The fire started on 3 August 2022 in Tulare, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 917 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 303th largest in California since 2016 (of 442 with a page). Number 329 in United States in 2022, of 493.

Burnt area
917ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
3 Aug 2022 – 3 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
3 Aug
2022
Heat detections
170
in a single hotspot: 38 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Aug3 Aug

The weather it burned in

25°high
65km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 22 Oct.

This area had burned before

43% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 397 ha in 2020.

What happened to each town

  1. Tulare where it started
    926 ha reached on 22 Aug
    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)
3 Aug 19.6 °C 50 % 25 km/h 6.6 mm Very low 0
4 Aug after 18.9 °C 52 % 32 km/h 16.7 mm Very low 0
5 Aug after 15.2 °C 57 % 38 km/h 17.4 mm Very low 0
6 Aug after 18.6 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.5 mm Very low 0
7 Aug after 20.0 °C 38 % 37 km/h 0.3 mm Very low 1
8 Aug after 18.9 °C 45 % 38 km/h 10.1 mm Very low 0
9 Aug after 16.8 °C 56 % 37 km/h 7.2 mm Very low 0
10 Aug after 18.3 °C 49 % 34 km/h 0.8 mm Very low 0
11 Aug after 19.7 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
12 Aug after 20.7 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
13 Aug after 20.5 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
14 Aug after 20.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm Low 8
15 Aug after 20.4 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.6 mm Low 7
16 Aug after 20.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.6 mm Low 7
17 Aug after 18.8 °C 48 % 25 km/h 6.6 mm Very low 0
18 Aug after 19.0 °C 41 % 34 km/h 7.9 mm Very low 0
19 Aug after 20.1 °C 41 % 28 km/h 2.2 mm Very low 0
20 Aug after 21.0 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
21 Aug after 21.0 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
22 Aug after 21.7 °C 35 % 30 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 4
23 Aug after 21.9 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.3 mm Low 8
24 Aug after 21.2 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.5 mm Low 10
25 Aug after 20.5 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 11
26 Aug after 19.9 °C 33 % 37 km/h 1.9 mm Very low 3
27 Aug after 20.1 °C 22 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
28 Aug after 20.2 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm Low 11
29 Aug after 21.2 °C 31 % 48 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 13
30 Aug after 22.5 °C 28 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
31 Aug after 23.1 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
1 Sept after 23.9 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
2 Sept after 24.0 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 18
3 Sept after 24.3 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
4 Sept after 24.7 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 20
5 Sept after 24.3 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
6 Sept after 25.2 °C 18 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Sept after 25.4 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 19
8 Sept after 23.1 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
9 Sept after 21.8 °C 20 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 23
10 Sept after 17.0 °C 51 % 38 km/h 2.9 mm Very low 3
11 Sept after 17.0 °C 37 % 31 km/h 1.0 mm Very low 4
12 Sept after 15.6 °C 48 % 30 km/h 7.5 mm Very low 0
13 Sept after 13.3 °C 51 % 35 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 0
14 Sept after 14.6 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
15 Sept after 14.3 °C 37 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
16 Sept after 15.3 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
17 Sept after 13.8 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
18 Sept after 12.7 °C 32 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
19 Sept after 12.9 °C 37 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
20 Sept after 13.0 °C 36 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
21 Sept after 12.0 °C 27 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
22 Sept after 16.2 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
23 Sept after 18.2 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 Sept after 18.5 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
25 Sept after 18.9 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
26 Sept after 19.1 °C 31 % 25 km/h 3.2 mm Very low 2
27 Sept after 18.5 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.8 mm Low 6
28 Sept after 17.5 °C 26 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
29 Sept after 18.3 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
30 Sept after 18.1 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
1 Oct after 17.3 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
2 Oct after 16.7 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
3 Oct after 17.2 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
4 Oct after 17.7 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
5 Oct after 17.9 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
6 Oct after 17.2 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
7 Oct after 17.4 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
8 Oct after 16.3 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 17
9 Oct after 15.4 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 14
10 Oct after 13.2 °C 42 % 27 km/h 4.0 mm Very low 1
11 Oct after 14.2 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.8 mm Very low 3
12 Oct after 15.3 °C 25 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Low 8
13 Oct after 15.4 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
14 Oct after 15.3 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
15 Oct after 14.6 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
16 Oct after 13.6 °C 22 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
17 Oct after 13.3 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 15
18 Oct after 13.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
19 Oct after 14.9 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
20 Oct after 13.8 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
21 Oct after 13.2 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
22 Oct after 7.9 °C 30 % 68 km/h 1.8 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Jul 2022
After · 10 Aug 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 4 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak19 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1027 µg/m³
Optical depth0.30
456
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 170Every 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 Summit fire last?
It burned between 3 August 2022 and 3 August 2022: 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 917 hectares (9.2 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Tulare (926 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.4 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 65 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class 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.

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.