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Andika fire, August 2020 Andika

Out · last detection 19 Aug 2020, 22:13 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2020 in Andika, Iran, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,248 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Khuzestan since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 32 in Iran in 2020, of 49.

Burnt area
1,248ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
13 Aug 2020 – 19 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
13 Aug
2020
Heat detections
36
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
50
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
194MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Aug 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug19 Aug

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
39km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 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. Andika where it started
    1,251 ha
    0.5 %

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)
13 Aug 38.1 °C 16 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
14 Aug 38.3 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
15 Aug 36.3 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
16 Aug 36.0 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
17 Aug 37.1 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
18 Aug 38.9 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
19 Aug 37.3 °C 12 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
20 Aug after 37.2 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
21 Aug after 37.2 °C 12 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
22 Aug after 35.2 °C 9 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Aug after 34.8 °C 15 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
24 Aug after 33.8 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
25 Aug after 34.9 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
26 Aug after 34.9 °C 16 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
27 Aug after 34.7 °C 16 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
28 Aug after 35.6 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
29 Aug after 37.0 °C 14 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2020
After · 26 Aug 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 · 0Every 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Andika fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 13 August 2020 and 19 August 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 1,248 hectares (12.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Andika (1,251 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (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: 125

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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 (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.