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Upper Ash Fire, August 2017 Douglas

Out · last detection 11 Aug 2017, 10:19 UTC

The fire started on 10 August 2017 in Douglas, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 790 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 253th largest in Oregon since 2016 (of 327 with a page). Number 438 in United States in 2017, of 619.

Burnt area
790ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
10 Aug 2017 – 10 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
10 Aug
2017
Heat detections
219
in a single hotspot: 52 MW
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
27MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Aug 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Aug10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

1011

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

The weather it burned in

29°high
50km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone one day 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. Douglas where it started
    786 ha reached on 10 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)
10 Aug 28.1 °C 42 % 29 km/h 1.7 mm Moderate 12
11 Aug after 28.5 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 20
12 Aug after 26.3 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Aug after 20.9 °C 59 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
14 Aug after 23.7 °C 27 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
15 Aug after 24.6 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Aug after 28.2 °C 25 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Aug after 29.0 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
18 Aug after 28.5 °C 19 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Aug after 25.9 °C 27 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Aug after 26.9 °C 23 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
21 Aug after 28.6 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Aug after 28.0 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Aug after 27.0 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Aug after 22.5 °C 48 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
25 Aug after 26.9 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
26 Aug after 32.4 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
27 Aug after 32.8 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
28 Aug after 35.0 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
29 Aug after 30.3 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Aug after 25.3 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
31 Aug after 29.5 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Sept after 35.7 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
2 Sept after 36.6 °C 13 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Sept after 33.7 °C 15 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Aug 2017
After · 17 Aug 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 · 219Every 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 Upper Ash fire last?
It burned between 10 August 2017 and 10 August 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 790 hectares (7.9 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Douglas (786 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.0 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, class Very 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.