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Baguinet fire, 20 April 2017 Baguinet, Banguigny

Out · last detection 1 May 2017, 15:00 UTC

The fire started on 20 April 2017 in Baguinet, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,755 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 38th largest in Boké since 2016 (of 237 with a page). Number 45 in Guinea in 2017, of 172.

Burnt area
3,755ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
20 Apr 2017 – 30 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
20 Apr
2017
Heat detections
147
in a single hotspot: 280 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
3.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 May 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Apr30 Apr

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
46km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 6 May.

This area had burned before

34% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,260 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Baguinet where it started
    3,454 ha reached on 13 Apr
    7.6 %
  2. Banguigny
    324 ha reached on 20 Apr
    0.8 %

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)
20 Apr 36.8 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
21 Apr 38.9 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Apr 36.2 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 Apr 35.9 °C 40 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Apr 36.7 °C 34 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Apr 39.4 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Apr 39.0 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
27 Apr 35.9 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Apr 36.3 °C 43 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 33
29 Apr 36.2 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.5 mm High 32
30 Apr 36.8 °C 40 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 May after 36.3 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.3 mm High 36
2 May after 34.2 °C 50 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm High 27
3 May after 36.8 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
4 May after 36.2 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 May after 36.4 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 May after 39.1 °C 34 % 34 km/h 2.8 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Apr 2017
After · 7 May 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 · 147Every 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 Baguinet fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 April 2017 and 30 April 2017: 11 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 3,755 hectares (37.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Baguinet (3,454 ha, 7.6 %); Banguigny (324 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.4 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (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 ADM3 (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.