How long did the Trumbull fire last?

It burned between 5 August 2019 and 5 August 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 1,183 hectares (11.8 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.

Which counties burned?

The fire only entered Mohave (1,192 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 73, class Very 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.

US · United States · 2019-08-05 → 2019-08-05

Trumbull Fire, August 2019 Mohave

Out · last measured on 5 Aug 2019

The fire started on 5 August 2019 in Mohave, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,183 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 195th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 186 in United States in 2019, of 367.

Burnt area: 1,183ha; official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration: 1day; 5 Aug 2019 – 5 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit: 1; counties
Started on: 5 Aug; 2019
Heat detections: 209; in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start: 40; Very high · FWI index

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Aug5 Aug

The weather it burned in

33°high

56km/h · peak gust

3%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 2 Sept.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Mohave where it started

1,192 ha reached on 9 Aug

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)
5 Aug	31.4 °C	11 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
6 Aug after	27.8 °C	15 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
7 Aug after	28.5 °C	17 %	40 km/h	0.9 mm	Very high 44
8 Aug after	27.9 °C	18 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
9 Aug after	28.8 °C	11 %	50 km/h	0.2 mm	Extreme 52
10 Aug after	28.5 °C	12 %	50 km/h	0.1 mm	Extreme 57
11 Aug after	27.5 °C	16 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
12 Aug after	29.3 °C	11 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
13 Aug after	30.2 °C	9 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
14 Aug after	31.8 °C	6 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
15 Aug after	32.6 °C	6 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
16 Aug after	31.4 °C	5 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
17 Aug after	30.1 °C	3 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 64
18 Aug after	29.9 °C	7 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 65
19 Aug after	29.8 °C	6 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
20 Aug after	31.8 °C	6 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
21 Aug after	31.8 °C	5 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
22 Aug after	30.2 °C	4 %	56 km/h	0.0 mm	Very extreme 73
23 Aug after	29.2 °C	9 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
24 Aug after	28.6 °C	11 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
25 Aug after	29.8 °C	13 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
26 Aug after	31.3 °C	13 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
27 Aug after	32.4 °C	11 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
28 Aug after	31.0 °C	11 %	37 km/h	0.6 mm	Very high 48
29 Aug after	29.6 °C	13 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
30 Aug after	30.7 °C	13 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
31 Aug after	31.8 °C	7 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
1 Sept after	31.9 °C	10 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
2 Sept after	27.9 °C	18 %	41 km/h	1.5 mm	High 27

Before and after, from space

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Before · 29 Jul 2019

After · 12 Aug 2019

Before After

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 · 209Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Trumbull fire last?: It burned between 5 August 2019 and 5 August 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 1,183 hectares (11.8 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?: The fire only entered Mohave (1,192 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 73, class Very 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

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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.

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