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Anta fire, 15 November 2017 Anta

Out · last detection 15 Nov 2017, 18:02 UTC

The fire started on 15 November 2017 in Anta, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,587 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 213th largest in Salta since 2016 (of 231 with a page). Number 235 in Argentina in 2017, of 256.

Burnt area
1,587ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
15 Nov 2017 – 15 Nov 2017
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
15 Nov
2017
Heat detections
42
in a single hotspot: 354 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
1.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Nov15 Nov

How it evolved, day by day

15

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

44°high
59km/h · peak gust
5%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.4 mm on 25 Nov.

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
    1,598 ha reached on 15 Nov
    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)
15 Nov 44.1 °C 5 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
16 Nov after 32.7 °C 20 % 72 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
17 Nov after 35.9 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Nov after 28.7 °C 17 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
19 Nov after 36.0 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Nov after 38.7 °C 15 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Nov after 29.5 °C 30 % 66 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 43
22 Nov after 33.0 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
23 Nov after 37.9 °C 15 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Nov after 40.2 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
25 Nov after 32.5 °C 38 % 62 km/h 3.4 mm Moderate 19

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Nov 2017
After · 22 Nov 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.

Detections table · 42Every 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 15 November 2017 and 15 November 2017: 1 day 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 1,587 hectares (15.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Anta (1,598 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 44.1 °C, humidity dropped to 5 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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.