{"id":67845,"date":"2025-11-12T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=67845"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:19:18","slug":"bald-mountain-fire-in-western-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/67845","title":{"rendered":"Bald Mountain Fire in western Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 3258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251112_goes19_visible_fireMask_VA_wildfire.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251112_1900utc_g19_vis_fireMask.png\" width=\"3248\" height=\"1908\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product, from 1230-2100 UTC on 12 November [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>The Bald Mountain brush fire had been burning for several days in far western Virginia &#8212; but flared up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20251112.html\"><strong>12 November 2025<\/strong><\/a>, due to ongoing<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251111_VA_drought_monitor.png\"><strong>\u00a0moderate drought conditions<\/strong><\/a> and an increase in winds west of a surface trough of low pressure. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Visible images with an overlay of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/goes_r_fire_surface_properties\/video\/presentation_html5.html?lms=1\"><strong>Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm<\/strong><\/a> Fire Mask derived product <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed an initial fire detection at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251112_1251utc_goes19_visible_fireMask_VA_wildfire_initial_detection.png\"><strong>1251 UTC<\/strong><\/a> in far northeast Craig County &#8212; and a smoke plume later became apparent as wind gusts at nearby METAR sites such as Roanoke (KROA) reached 30-37 kts during the afternoon hours.<\/p>\n<p>However, 1-minute GOES-19 GeoColor RGB images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> depicted the smoke plume with greater clarity during the daytime hours &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/ngfs\/\"><strong>Next Generation Fire System<\/strong><\/a> (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons portrayed a thermal signature of the Bald Mountain fire several hours earlier than the Fire Mask derived product.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3004px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251112_goes19_geoColorRGB_ngfsFireDetections_VA.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251112_2018utc_g19_rgb_ngfs_VA.png\" width=\"2994\" height=\"1782\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of NGFS Fire Detection polygons, from 1000-2359 UTC on 12 November [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bald Mountain brush fire had been burning for several days in far western Virginia &#8212; but flared up on 12 November 2025, due to ongoing\u00a0moderate drought conditions and an increase in winds west of a surface trough of low pressure. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Detection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":67851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,159,158,53,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-19","category-ngfs","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67845","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=67845"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67874,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67845\/revisions\/67874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}