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Table Rock Fire, June 2016 Ada

Out · last detection 30 Jun 2016, 10:51 UTC

The fire started on 30 June 2016 in Ada, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,004 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 219th largest in Idaho since 2016 (of 379 with a page). Number 264 in United States in 2016, of 475.

The power measured by the satellite is low (15.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
1,004ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
30 Jun 2016 – 30 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
30 Jun
2016
Heat detections
25
in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
165MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jun30 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

30

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
36km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 9 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. Ada where it started
    999 ha reached on 30 Jun
    0.4 %

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)
30 Jun 35.2 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
1 Jul after 34.2 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
2 Jul after 34.3 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
3 Jul after 34.4 °C 13 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
4 Jul after 30.7 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
5 Jul after 27.5 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
6 Jul after 25.8 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
7 Jul after 31.5 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Jul after 30.1 °C 21 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
9 Jul after 27.1 °C 33 % 35 km/h 1.3 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jun 2016
After · 7 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 · 25Every 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 Table Rock fire last?
It burned between 30 June 2016 and 30 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 1,004 hectares (10.0 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Ada (999 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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.