{"id":57642,"date":"2024-03-11T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=57642"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:36:04","slug":"update-on-the-smokehouse-creek-fire-and-windy-deuce-fire-burn-scars-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/57642","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Smokehouse Creek Fire and Windy Deuce Fire burn scars in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240311_1845utc_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_goes16_landSurfaceTemperature_TX_fire_burn_scars_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240311_1845utc_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_goes16_landSurfaceTemperature_TX_fire_burn_scars_anim.gif\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images valid at 1845 UTC, with the GOES-16 Land Surface Temperature derived product valid at 1901 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Two weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident-information\/txtxs-smokehouse-creek-fire\"><strong>Smokehouse Creek Fire<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident-information\/txtxs-windy-deuce-fire\"><strong>Windy Deuce Fire<\/strong><\/a> started in the Texas Panhandle &#8212; as discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/57431\"><strong>this blog post<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; a comparison of Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images along with the GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/QuickGuide_GOESR_LandSurfaceTemperature.pdf\"><strong>Land Surface Temperature<\/strong><\/a> (LST) derived product <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the extent of the burn scars from those 2 fires on 11 March 2024. LST values were 10-12\u00baF warmer in the core of the burn scars (upper 90s to 100\u00baF, darker shades of red) compared to areas immediately adjacent to the scars (upper 80s F to low 90s F, cyan to green). On that day the 2 fires were 89% and 94% contained, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-meter resolution Landsat-8 Natural Color RGB image displayed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a more detailed view of the 2 burn scars.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240311_1720utc_landsat8_falseColorRGB_TX_fire_burn_scars_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/03\/240311_1720utc_landsat8_falseColorRGB_TX_fire_burn_scars_anim.gif\" width=\"1920\" height=\"962\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landsat-8 Natural Color RGB image, valid at 1720 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the Smokehouse Creek Fire and Windy Deuce Fire started in the Texas Panhandle &#8212; as discussed in this blog post &#8212; a comparison of Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images along with the GOES-16 (GOES-East) Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived product (above) showed the extent of the burn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":57655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,55,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-landsat","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57642"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57663,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57642\/revisions\/57663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}