[ SECRET POST #5889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

News report saying the fire is '26%' contained? Wtf does that mean?

IDK about the rest of it, but this is absolutely the way that fires are reported on

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

DA Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the news report is basically the only thing in this list that actually makes sense.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It's not the idea it's contained, it's the exactitude of the 26% part. Maybe they do percentages in the US, but where I'm from a fire will either be out of control, partially contained or contained. Saying a fire is 26% contained seems strange as that means 74% is out of control and quite possibly actively spreading. In that context I just don't understand how 26% could be in more meaningful or accurate than 'approximately a quarter', if they wanted to quantify it.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

% contained is a real thing in the US. Don’t ask me why or how - I have no idea. But it is reported that way very commonly. It would not be at all unusual to see a wildfire reported as 26% contained.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the info, that's interesting!

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Specific percentages are definitely a thing in the US. Like during a bad fire season, they'll have a big map tracker that shows all of the fires in a given area and each one will display "X% contained".

I think what it basically means is, what percentage of the perimeter of the fire is contained and no longer advancing. So if a fire is 26% contained, that means that out of the total perimeter of the fire, 26% of that perimeter has been blocked from advancing any further, whether by natural boundaries or firefighting. Whereas the other 76% of the perimeter is still able to spread.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the info! It still seems strange to me for the above reasons, but it's obviously meaningful enough for you guys to use it so *shrug emoji*

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Containment is a percentage of the entire perimeter - a wildfire with 26% containment means control lines have been completed around 26% of the fire’s perimeter. If the perimeter is 67 miles (so an area roughly 359 square miles or 229,651 acres like the Carr Fire burned in California in 2018, which was not even the biggest that year), 26% would be 17.42 miles, not the 16.75 miles of 25%. For big fires, 1% percent does make a difference.