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Anta fire, 5 September 2016 Anta

Out · last detection 20 Sept 2016, 17:55 UTC

The fire started on 5 September 2016 in Anta, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,591 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 211th largest in Salta since 2016 (of 231 with a page). Number 237 in Argentina in 2016, of 255.

Burnt area
1,591ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
16days
5 Sept 2016 – 20 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
5 Sept
2016
Heat detections
92
in a single hotspot: 53 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
826MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

20 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Sept20 Sept

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

40°high
61km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.7 mm on 23 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Anta where it started
    1,604 ha reached on 5 Sept
    0.1 %

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)
5 Sept 17.6 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
6 Sept 20.3 °C 23 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
7 Sept 24.8 °C 14 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
8 Sept 28.3 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Sept 30.8 °C 10 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
10 Sept 34.1 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Sept 38.4 °C 17 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
12 Sept 39.9 °C 14 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
13 Sept 31.2 °C 14 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
14 Sept 28.4 °C 18 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
15 Sept 30.3 °C 16 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Sept 32.6 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
17 Sept 37.2 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Sept 33.3 °C 24 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
19 Sept 25.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
20 Sept 28.7 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Sept after 32.1 °C 17 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
22 Sept after 37.3 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
23 Sept after 28.8 °C 39 % 48 km/h 2.7 mm Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Aug 2016
After · 27 Sept 2016

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 · 92Every 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 Anta fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 September 2016 and 20 September 2016: 16 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 1,591 hectares (15.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Anta (1,604 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.9 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
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.