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Aboudéia fire, 29 October 2016 Aboudéia

Out · last detection 3 Nov 2016, 12:36 UTC

The fire started on 29 October 2016 in Aboudéia, Chad, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,766 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 69th largest in Salamat since 2016 (of 574 with a page). Number 33 in Chad in 2016, of 220.

Burnt area
4,766ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
29 Oct 2016 – 3 Nov 2016
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
29 Oct
2016
Heat detections
141
in a single hotspot: 57 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
745MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

3 Nov 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Oct3 Nov

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

37°high
39km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Aboudéia where it started
    4,790 ha reached on 23 Oct
    0.4 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
29 Oct 35.3 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Oct 34.6 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 Oct 36.1 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Nov 37.0 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
2 Nov 36.8 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Nov 37.0 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Nov after 36.5 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
5 Nov after 36.7 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Nov after 36.3 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
7 Nov after 37.2 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
8 Nov after 37.2 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Nov after 37.0 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Nov after 37.7 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Nov after 38.1 °C 13 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Nov after 37.4 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Nov after 36.8 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 22 Oct 2016
After · 10 Nov 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 141Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Aboudéia fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 October 2016 and 3 November 2016: 6 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,766 hectares (47.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Aboudéia (4,790 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Chad (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.