Livingston
Geographic Context
This fire event occurred near Searcy (approximately 92 km away) in United States, an area where drought conditions, high temperatures, and dry vegetation frequently combine to create elevated wildfire risk.
Event Assessment
This event is a wildfire detected through satellite-based thermal monitoring systems. Calamity.live has classified it as "high" severity with a severity value of 80. The computed Calamity Score is 9 out of 100, suggesting contained impact at this time. The primary scoring components are: intensity (20), historical (10). Data for this event was sourced from nifc, one of the 250 scientific monitoring sources aggregated by Calamity.live.
Regional Monitoring Context
United States has a documented history of fire events. Wildfire activity in the region is monitored through NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System), which provides near-real-time active fire data from MODIS and VIIRS satellites. Fire behavior is influenced by vegetation type, moisture content, wind patterns, and terrain — all factors that determine whether an initial ignition becomes a major event.
Cascade Risk Analysis
This event may trigger secondary hazards through cascade effects. Cascade detection is an automated process that evaluates how primary disasters can trigger secondary events — for example, earthquakes triggering landslides, or volcanic eruptions causing lahars and pyroclastic flows. These secondary hazards can sometimes pose a greater threat than the initial event, particularly in mountainous terrain or densely populated areas.
Event Data
| Type | Fire |
| Severity | high |
| Severity Value | 80 |
| Calamity Score | 9 / 100 |
| Confidence | 53% |
| Coordinates | 36.0132, -92.1246 |
| Nearest City | Searcy (92 km) |
| Impact Tier | minor |
| Timestamp | 2026-03-13T13:15:56.977Z |
| Source | https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/ |
Score Breakdown
Technical Details
| FireId | 36.013_-92.125 |
| FireName | Livingston |
| Acres | 0 |
| Firms Brightness | 367 |
| Firms Frp | 339.91000000000014 |
| Firms PixelCount | 27 |
| Firms Confidence | high |
| Firms Area Km2 | 3.7800000000000002 |
| MergedSources | [{"id":"firms_36.000_-92.181","source":"firms","severity":"high","severityValue":80,"timestamp":1773427500000,"latitude":35.99986962962963,"longitude":-92.18050407407408}] |
Cascade Risks
Safety Information
If a wildfire is approaching: follow evacuation orders immediately. Do not wait to see the fire. Close all windows and doors, remove combustible materials from around your home, and have an emergency go-bag ready. Air quality can deteriorate rapidly even at distance from the fire front — monitor local air quality advisories.
This data is aggregated algorithmically from scientific sources. Not a replacement for official emergency warnings.
Calamity.live data shows a fire event with CalamityScore 9/100, near Searcy (United States), based on data from nifc. Source: Calamity.live, a platform aggregating real-time data from 197 scientific monitoring sources.