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Ad Dinder fire, 28 October 2016 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 1 Nov 2016, 11:33 UTC

The fire started on 28 October 2016 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,130 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 44th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 130 with a page). Number 67 in Sudan in 2016, of 169.

Burnt area
3,130ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
28 Oct 2016 – 31 Oct 2016
Municipalities hit
1
localities
Started on
28 Oct
2016
Heat detections
64
in a single hotspot: 208 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Nov 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Oct31 Oct

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

40°high
32km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 mm on 9 Nov.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Ad Dinder where it started
    3,145 ha reached on 28 Oct
    0.2 %

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)
28 Oct 38.5 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Oct 38.7 °C 21 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
30 Oct 39.1 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Oct 39.9 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
1 Nov after 41.2 °C 10 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Nov after 40.8 °C 11 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Nov after 41.0 °C 8 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
4 Nov after 40.4 °C 9 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
5 Nov after 40.9 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
6 Nov after 40.2 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
7 Nov after 40.6 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
8 Nov after 38.9 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.4 mm Extreme 52
9 Nov after 38.9 °C 17 % 35 km/h 2.5 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Oct 2016
After · 7 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 · 64Every 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 Ad Dinder fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 October 2016 and 31 October 2016: 4 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 3,130 hectares (31.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ad Dinder (3,145 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.9 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Sudan (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.