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Aboudéia fire, 6 January 2022 Aboudéia

Out · last detection 10 Jan 2022, 12:23 UTC

The fire started on 6 January 2022 in Aboudéia, Chad, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,743 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 127th largest in Salamat since 2016 (of 574 with a page). Number 27 in Chad in 2022, of 102.

Burnt area
3,743ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
6 Jan 2022 – 10 Jan 2022
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
6 Jan
2022
Heat detections
95
in a single hotspot: 56 MW
Danger at start
52
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
579MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Jan 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jan10 Jan

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

38°high
35km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

70% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,501 ha in 2017, 65 ha in 2019, 1,218 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,624 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Aboudéia where it started
    3,760 ha reached on 6 Jan
    0.3 %

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 Jan 34.9 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
7 Jan 36.7 °C 13 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
8 Jan 37.7 °C 13 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
9 Jan 38.3 °C 10 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
10 Jan 35.9 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
11 Jan after 36.7 °C 13 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
12 Jan after 37.9 °C 12 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
13 Jan after 38.0 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
14 Jan after 38.1 °C 9 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
15 Jan after 37.5 °C 8 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
16 Jan after 34.7 °C 8 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
17 Jan after 33.2 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
18 Jan after 33.6 °C 9 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
19 Jan after 32.7 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
20 Jan after 32.3 °C 12 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Dec 2021
After · 17 Jan 2022

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 · 95Every 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 January 2022 and 10 January 2022: 5 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 3,743 hectares (37.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Aboudéia (3,760 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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.