Apuí fire, 27 July 2022 Apuí
The fire started on 27 July 2022 in Apuí, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,059 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 428th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 662 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.
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
- 3,059ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 27 Jul 2022 – 3 Aug 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Jul
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 7 Aug.
This area had burned before
40% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,226 ha in 2021.
What happened to each town
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3,074 ha reached on 22 Jul0.1 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul | 33.6 °C | 37 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Jul | 34.8 °C | 30 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 24 Jul | 35.2 °C | 27 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 25 Jul | 36.3 °C | 28 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 26 Jul | 36.5 °C | 23 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 27 Jul | 36.5 °C | 19 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 28 Jul | 35.1 °C | 28 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 29 Jul | 34.0 °C | 31 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 30 Jul | 33.4 °C | 33 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 31 Jul | 33.5 °C | 47 % | 23 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 26 |
| 1 Aug | 32.9 °C | 51 % | 24 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Aug | 33.9 °C | 43 % | 35 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Aug | 33.8 °C | 46 % | 31 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 4 Aug after | 33.8 °C | 48 % | 33 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 26 |
| 5 Aug after | 34.7 °C | 43 % | 26 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 23 |
| 6 Aug after | 34.8 °C | 42 % | 20 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 24 |
| 7 Aug after | 32.3 °C | 52 % | 26 km/h | 1.1 mm | Moderate 14 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Apuí fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 July 2022 and 3 August 2022: 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 3,059 hectares (30.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Apuí (3,074 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193
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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.