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Ananda fire, February 2020 Bocanda, Ananda, N'Zécrezessou

Out · last detection 18 Feb 2020, 13:37 UTC

The fire started on 12 February 2020 in Ananda, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,278 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 3th largest in Lacs since 2016 (of 139 with a page). Number 4 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2020, of 155.

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Suggestions: Ananda · 2016Ananda · 2019Kouassi-Kouassikro · 2026Akpassanou · 2016

Burnt area
9,278ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
12 Feb 2020 – 18 Feb 2020
Municipalities hit
3
sub-prefectures
Started on
12 Feb
2020
Heat detections
490
in a single hotspot: 58 MW
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
907MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Feb18 Feb
18 Feb 2020

How it evolved, day by day

12 Feb 2020 · 185 MW · 10 13 Feb 2020 · 2,079 MW · 107 14 Feb 2020 · 2,189 MW · 110 15 Feb 2020 · 730 MW · 144 16 Feb 2020 · 982 MW · 90 17 Feb 2020 · 173 MW · 27 18 Feb 2020 · 9 MW · 2
12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb

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
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

69% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6,498 ha in 2016, 206 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,362 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 5.9% of the area of London (93 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Bocanda
    4,938 ha reached on 13 Feb
    3.7 %
  2. Ananda where it started
    3,193 ha reached on 12 Feb
    5.9 %
  3. N'Zécrezessou
    1,208 ha reached on 15 Feb
    2.9 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020
Built-up area8.2 ha
Residents≈ 1,100

Inside the perimeter there were about 8.2 hectares of built-up land and about 1,100 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
12 Feb 36.3 °C 13 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Feb 36.0 °C 16 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
14 Feb 35.8 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
15 Feb 37.1 °C 14 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Feb 37.7 °C 20 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Feb 37.5 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Feb 36.8 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
19 Feb after 37.7 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Feb after 36.8 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 33
21 Feb after 39.1 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Feb after 37.3 °C 36 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Feb after 37.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Feb after 38.6 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 36
25 Feb after 38.6 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 40
26 Feb after 37.0 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Feb after 36.9 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 36
28 Feb after 37.4 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Feb 2020
After · 25 Feb 2020

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 · 490Every 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 Ananda fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 February 2020 and 18 February 2020: 7 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 9,278 hectares (92.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Bocanda (4,938 ha, 3.7 %); Ananda (3,193 ha, 5.9 %); N'Zécrezessou (1,208 ha, 2.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very high.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 490 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.