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---
id: lahaina-fire
name: 'Lahaina Fire'
description: "HLS data - BAIS2 and SWIR false color composite, and Landsat-8 thermal imagery supporting the Lahaina, HI"
media:
src: ::file ./lahaina-fire-background.jpg
alt: Wildfire erupting over Lahaina, HI, August 8, 2023
author:
name: Matthew Thayer/AP
url: https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/hawaii-fire-maui-lahaina-18289213.php
taxonomy:
- name: Topics
values:
- EIS
- name: Source
values:
- UAH
layers:
- id: hls-bais2-v2
stacCol: hls-bais2-v2
name: BAIS-2 Burned Area
type: raster
description: 'Experimental burned-area calculation from the HLS scene taken on August 13,2023 over Lahaina, HI'
zoomExtent:
- 4
- 20
sourceParams:
colormap_name: rdylbu_r
rescale: 0.5,1
resampling: bilinear
bidx: 1
nodata: -9999
compare:
datasetId: lahaina-fire
layerId: landsat-nighttime-thermal
mapLabel: |
::js ({ dateFns, datetime, compareDatetime }) => {
return `${dateFns.format(datetime, 'DD LLL yyyy')}`;
}
legend:
type: gradient
min: "Low Burn Confidence"
max: "High Burn Confidence"
stops:
- "#313695"
- "#74add1"
- "#e0f3f8"
- "#fee090"
- "#f46d43"
- "#a50026"

- id: hls-swir-falsecolor-composite
stacCol: hls-swir-falsecolor-composite
name: HLS SWIR FalseColor Composite
type: raster
description: 'HLS falsecolor composite imagery using S30 Bands 12, 8A, and 4, over Lahaina, HI.'
zoomExtent:
- 0
- 20
sourceParams:
rescale:
- 0,5000
resampling: bilinear
bidx: [1,2,3]
compare:
datasetId: lahaina-hls-swir-falsecolor-composite
layerId: hls-swir-falsecolor-composite
mapLabel: |
::js ({ dateFns, datetime, compareDatetime }) => {
return `${dateFns.format(datetime, 'DD LLL yyyy')}`;
}
- id: landsat-nighttime-thermal
stacCol: landsat-nighttime-thermal
name: Landsat-8 Thermal Band
type: raster
description: 'Nighttime Thermal band from Landsat-8 on August 8, 2023 shows the extent of the ongoing Lahaina Fire.'
initialDatetime: newest
zoomExtent:
- 0
- 20

sourceParams:
colormap_name: inferno
nodata: 0
resampling: bilinear
bidx: 1
rescale:
- 140
- 240
compare:
datasetId: lahaina-fire
layerId: hls-bais2-v2
mapLabel: |
::js ({ dateFns, datetime, compareDatetime }) => {
return `${dateFns.format(datetime, 'DD LLL yyyy')}`;
}
legend:
type: gradient
min: "No Active Fire"
max: "Active Fire"
stops:
- '#08041d'
- '#1f0a46'
- '#52076c'
- '#f57c16'
- '#f7cf39'

---

<Block>
<Prose>
## Overview
On August 8th, 2023, a devastating wildfire roared through the city of Lahaina, Hawai’i, located on the island of Maui and home to over 13,000 residents. This wildfire was reported sparked by a downed powerline on Lahainaluna Road, and though was initially put out was reinvigorated by intense wind gusts that prevailed throughout the day. The National Weather Service reported measured wind gusts as high as 67 mph in the area, which helped quickly spread the wildfire across much of Lahaina in the afternoon hours of August 8th.This dataset includes 3 layers supporting the Lahaina Fire.

An experimental burned area index was then calculated from HLS imagery taken after the fire on August 13th, 2023. This index, known as BAIS2, highlighted the burned area quite well compared to the more traditional Normalized Burn Ratio Indices 1 and 2, and had the highest ‘probabilities’ of burned area over the severely scorched fields just uphill from the city.

A three-band composite using the shortwave infrared, narrow near-infrared, and red bands (SWIR false color composite) of pre and post-fire HLS data reveals excellently the extent of the burned area from the Lahaina Fire. These scenes are taken from August 8 and 13, 2023.

Thermal infrared imagery from Landsat-8 on the night of August 8, 2023.

</Prose>
</Block>

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