How long did the Ambato fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 July 2022 and 14 July 2022: 1 day 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 1,611 hectares (16.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Ambato (1,616 ha, 0.9 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 20.2 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 7, class Low.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

AR · Argentina · 2022-07-14 → 2022-07-14

Ambato fire, July 2022 Ambato

Out · last detection 14 Jul 2022, 17:48 UTC

The fire started on 14 July 2022 in Ambato, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,611 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 41th largest in Catamarca since 2016 (of 44 with a page). Number 399 in Argentina in 2022, of 442.

Burnt area: 1,611ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 1day; 14 Jul 2022 – 14 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit: 1; departments
Started on: 14 Jul; 2022
Heat detections: 59; in a single hotspot: 145 MW
Danger at start: 7; Low · FWI index
Energy released: 2.5GW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jul14 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

20°high

23km/h · peak gust

31%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.9 mm on 15 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Ambato where it started

1,616 ha reached on 14 Jul

0.9 %

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)
14 Jul	20.2 °C	31 %	23 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 7
15 Jul after	8.4 °C	59 %	22 km/h	2.9 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Jul 2022

After · 21 Jul 2022

Before After

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 · 59Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ambato fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 July 2022 and 14 July 2022: 1 day 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 1,611 hectares (16.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Ambato (1,616 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 20.2 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 7, class Low.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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.

Where it burned