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Tenderfoot Fire, June 2016 Yavapai

Out · last detection 12 Jun 2016, 21:10 UTC

The fire started on 8 June 2016 in Yavapai, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,765 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 145th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 179 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
1,765ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
5days
8 Jun 2016 – 12 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
8 Jun
2016
Heat detections
71
in a single hotspot: 170 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
514MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

12 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Jun12 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

9 Jun 2016 · 877 MW · 28 10 Jun 2016 · 651 MW · 41 12 Jun 2016 · 15 MW · 2
9 Jun 10 Jun 12 Jun

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
53km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 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. Yavapai where it started
    1,755 ha reached on 9 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)
8 Jun 31.1 °C 14 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
9 Jun 30.4 °C 17 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
10 Jun 28.8 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 47
11 Jun 27.7 °C 24 % 52 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 51
12 Jun 28.4 °C 12 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
13 Jun after 26.5 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Jun after 27.7 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Jun after 27.1 °C 7 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
16 Jun after 28.3 °C 11 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
17 Jun after 30.4 °C 8 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
18 Jun after 33.7 °C 5 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
19 Jun after 38.5 °C 8 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
20 Jun after 38.4 °C 6 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
21 Jun after 34.1 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
22 Jun after 34.2 °C 12 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Jun 2016
After · 19 Jun 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 · 71Every 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 Tenderfoot fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 June 2016 to 12 June 2016 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 June 2016 to 8 June 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 1,765 hectares (17.6 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Yavapai (1,755 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 53 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.