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Aboudéia fire, 6 February 2019 Aboudéia, Barh-Signaka

Out · last detection 9 Feb 2019, 01:03 UTC

The fire started on 6 February 2019 in Aboudéia, Chad, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,489 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 146th largest in Salamat since 2016 (of 574 with a page). Number 46 in Chad in 2019, of 154.

Burnt area
3,489ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
6 Feb 2019 – 8 Feb 2019
Municipalities hit
2
departments
Started on
6 Feb
2019
Heat detections
84
in a single hotspot: 41 MW
Danger at start
64
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
387MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Feb 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Feb8 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

6789

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
40km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

38% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,334 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Aboudéia where it started
    3,134 ha reached on 6 Feb
    0.3 %
  2. Barh-Signaka
    373 ha reached on 7 Feb
    0.0 %

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)
6 Feb 35.4 °C 8 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
7 Feb 33.9 °C 9 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
8 Feb 35.4 °C 9 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
9 Feb after 36.6 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
10 Feb after 35.6 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
11 Feb after 35.4 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
12 Feb after 36.0 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
13 Feb after 36.5 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
14 Feb after 37.4 °C 8 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
15 Feb after 35.9 °C 11 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
16 Feb after 35.0 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
17 Feb after 35.5 °C 11 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
18 Feb after 37.1 °C 11 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jan 2019
After · 15 Feb 2019

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 · 84Every 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 6 February 2019 and 8 February 2019: 3 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 3,489 hectares (34.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Aboudéia (3,134 ha, 0.3 %); Barh-Signaka (373 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
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.