How long did the Ananda fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 24 January 2016 to 18 February 2016 (26 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 January 2016 to 13 February 2016.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 46,109 hectares (461.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 7 municipalities: Ananda (25,426 ha, 47 %); M'Bahiakro (10,537 ha, 6.6 %); Ouellé (5,678 ha, 7.7 %); Bocanda (2,813 ha, 2.1 %); N'Zécrezessou (1,896 ha, 4.5 %); Koffi-Amonkro (36 ha, 0.1 %); Daoukro (24 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, class Extreme.

Where does this data come from?

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

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2016-01-24 → 2016-02-18

Ananda fire, January 2016 Ananda, M'Bahiakro, Ouellé

Out · last detection 18 Feb 2016, 13:33 UTC

The fire started on 24 January 2016 in Ananda, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 26 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 46,109 hectares from heat detections, spread across 7 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Lacs since 2016 (of 139 with a page). The largest in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

Burnt area: 46,109ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 26days; 24 Jan 2016 – 18 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit: 7; sub-prefectures
Started on: 24 Jan; 2016
Heat detections: 1,829; in a single hotspot: 293 MW
Danger at start: 62; Extreme · FWI index
Energy released: 25.5GW; sum of detected power

Play back 18 Feb 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Jan18 Feb

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

40km/h · peak gust

3%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 15 Feb.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Ananda where it started

25,426 ha reached on 24 Jan

47 %
M'Bahiakro

10,537 ha reached on 24 Jan

6.6 %
Ouellé

5,678 ha reached on 27 Jan

7.7 %
Bocanda

2,813 ha reached on 26 Jan

2.1 %
N'Zécrezessou

1,896 ha reached on 2 Feb

4.5 %
Koffi-Amonkro

36 ha

0.1 %
Daoukro

24 ha

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)
24 Jan	35.5 °C	5 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
25 Jan	35.4 °C	5 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
26 Jan	34.3 °C	8 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
27 Jan	35.6 °C	9 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 55
28 Jan	34.5 °C	6 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
29 Jan	34.6 °C	4 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
30 Jan	35.5 °C	8 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
31 Jan	35.6 °C	12 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
1 Feb	36.3 °C	6 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
2 Feb	36.2 °C	5 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
3 Feb	36.5 °C	3 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
4 Feb	35.6 °C	16 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
5 Feb	36.4 °C	12 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
6 Feb	38.3 °C	13 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
7 Feb	37.2 °C	12 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
8 Feb	36.8 °C	14 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 50
9 Feb	37.4 °C	10 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
10 Feb	37.5 °C	7 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
11 Feb	37.8 °C	11 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
12 Feb	37.1 °C	12 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
13 Feb	36.2 °C	17 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
14 Feb	36.6 °C	30 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
15 Feb	35.2 °C	38 %	29 km/h	1.5 mm	High 24

Before and after, from space

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Before · 17 Jan 2016

After · 25 Feb 2016

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 · 1,829Every 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 Ananda fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 24 January 2016 to 18 February 2016 (26 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 January 2016 to 13 February 2016.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 46,109 hectares (461.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 7 municipalities: Ananda (25,426 ha, 47 %); M'Bahiakro (10,537 ha, 6.6 %); Ouellé (5,678 ha, 7.7 %); Bocanda (2,813 ha, 2.1 %); N'Zécrezessou (1,896 ha, 4.5 %); Koffi-Amonkro (36 ha, 0.1 %); Daoukro (24 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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.

Emergency number: 180

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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 ADM3 (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.

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