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Anda City fire, April 2017 Anda City, Sartu District

Out · last measured on 19 Apr 2017

The fire started on 12 April 2017 in Anda City, China, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,103 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1495th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1751 with a page). Number 233 in China in 2017, of 272.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
1,103ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
12 Apr 2017 – 19 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
12 Apr
2017
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

21°high
67km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 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. Anda City where it started
    1,002 ha
    0.3 %
  2. Sartu District
    104 ha
    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)
12 Apr 5.4 °C 17 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
13 Apr 19.8 °C 19 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
14 Apr 21.3 °C 16 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
15 Apr 19.1 °C 12 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
16 Apr 12.5 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Apr 11.2 °C 37 % 48 km/h 3.1 mm Very low 5
18 Apr 8.9 °C 49 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
19 Apr 13.0 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
20 Apr after 12.7 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
21 Apr after 16.3 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
22 Apr after 18.8 °C 18 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Apr after 13.5 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
24 Apr after 11.6 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
25 Apr after 10.9 °C 48 % 41 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 16
26 Apr after 13.7 °C 29 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
27 Apr after 16.5 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
28 Apr after 18.6 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Apr after 23.3 °C 16 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Apr 2017
After · 26 Apr 2017

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Anda City fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 April 2017 and 19 April 2017: 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 1,103 hectares (11.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Anda City (1,002 ha, 0.3 %); Sartu District (104 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 21.3 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of China (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: 119

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.