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Pallet Fire near Coloma in central Wisconsin

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, top right), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Temperature derived product (bottom left) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the Fire Temperature derived product and Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product — both derived products being components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA — (above) showed thermal signatures associated with the Pallet Fire near Coloma in central Wisconsin on 10 July 2023. Wind gusts at the nearby Wautoma Airport reached 23 knots — and the smoke plume briefly reduced surface visibility at that site to 5 miles at 23 UTC.

Cursor-sampling at 2126 UTC (below) indicated that the warmest 3.9 µm brightness temperature was 108.82ºC, with a peak Fire Power value of 1524.24 MW.

Cursor-sampled values of GOES-16 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, top right), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Temperature derived product (bottom left) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (bottom right) [click to enlarge]

GOES-16 True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (below) highlighted the distinct smoke plume created by this wildfire.

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play MP4 animation]

Categories: Air quality, Fire detection, GOES-16, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images