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Ad Dinder fire, 6 December 2019 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 13 Dec 2019, 11:13 UTC

The fire started on 6 December 2019 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,244 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 42th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 130 with a page). Number 36 in Sudan in 2019, of 132.

Burnt area
3,244ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
6 Dec 2019 – 13 Dec 2019
Municipalities hit
1
localities
Started on
6 Dec
2019
Heat detections
86
in a single hotspot: 49 MW
Danger at start
49
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
860MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Dec 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Dec13 Dec

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

39°high
34km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 27 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. Ad Dinder where it started
    3,257 ha reached on 6 Dec
    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)
6 Dec 38.6 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
7 Dec 37.6 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
8 Dec 37.6 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
9 Dec 38.3 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
10 Dec 38.8 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
11 Dec 39.2 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
12 Dec 36.6 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Dec 38.9 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Dec after 37.9 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Dec after 38.8 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
16 Dec after 36.8 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 Dec after 36.7 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Dec after 37.0 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
19 Dec after 37.7 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
20 Dec after 37.5 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Dec after 37.6 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Dec after 37.6 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
23 Dec after 37.6 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Nov 2019
After · 20 Dec 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 · 86Every 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 6 December 2019 and 13 December 2019: 8 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 3,244 hectares (32.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ad Dinder (3,257 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.2 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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.