Burned area
satellite only2,079ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016
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PY · Paraguay · –
Bahía Negra fire, February 2016 Bahía Negra
Out · last detection 20 Feb 2016, 05:21 UTC
The fire started on 8 February 2016 in Bahía Negra, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,079 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 210th largest in ALTO PARAGUAY since 2016 (of 383 with a page). Number 61 in Paraguay in 2016, of 124.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only13days
8 Feb 2016 to 20 Feb 2016: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 20 Feb 2016, 05:21 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only8 Feb 2016
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only116
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 51 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only751MW
Total radiative power on 17 February 2016; hotspots that day: 50.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 17 Feb 2016
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model6.3FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 1.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model38.3°C · 38% RH
High of 38.3 °C and minimum humidity of 38% on 19 February 2016; gusts of 63 km/h on 8 February 2016.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 8 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 9 February 2016 → 8 February 2016.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,079 ha
- Dates
- 8 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016
- Name
- Bahía Negra
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/bahia-negra-2016-02?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire bahia-negra-2016-02.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-08 | 1 | 7 | 35.5 | 26.3 | 49 | 23.4 | 63.4 | 0 | 6.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-09 | 5 | 13 | 36.3 | 27.4 | 51 | 17.6 | 52.6 | 1.4 | 4.4 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-10 | 1 | 1 | 33.8 | 26.6 | 62 | 12.8 | 33.5 | 5.3 | 0.5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-11 | 1 | 9 | 36.2 | 26.2 | 51 | 14.6 | 37.1 | 0.1 | 4.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-12 | 24 | 163 | 36.8 | 26.6 | 43 | 20.4 | 46.1 | 0 | 9.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-13 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 27.1 | 45 | 24.2 | 49.3 | 0 | 11.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2016-02-14 | 8 | 34 | 35.9 | 26.8 | 49 | 16.5 | 51.5 | 0 | 10.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-15 | 2 | 2 | 37.3 | 27 | 43 | 13.6 | 38.2 | 0 | 10.4 | bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-16 | 0 | 0 | 36.8 | 27.4 | 46 | 19.4 | 52.2 | 0.1 | 13.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2016-02-17 | 50 | 751 | 36.9 | 27.5 | 41 | 29.3 | 60.1 | 0 | 19 | moderado | 1 |
| 2016-02-18 | 7 | 28 | 37.6 | 27.8 | 46 | 21.6 | 50.4 | 0 | 16.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2016-02-19 | 0 | 0 | 38.3 | 27 | 38 | 19.2 | 46.8 | 0 | 17.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2016-02-20 | 8 | 17 | 33.7 | 26.9 | 53 | 11.6 | 33.1 | 1.1 | 7.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2016-02-21 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 | 24.6 | 66 | 10 | 28.1 | 27.8 | 0.2 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 2,079ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 13days
- 8 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 8 Feb
- 2016
- Heat detections
- 116
- in a single hotspot: 51 MW
- Danger at start
- 6
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 96MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
8 Feb20 Feb
20 Feb 2016
How it evolved, day by day
8 Feb
11 Feb
17 Feb
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
63km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 27.8 mm on 21 Feb.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Bahía Negra where it started2,085 ha reached on 8 Feb0.1 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2015Built-up area0.38 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.38 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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)
Started with Strong wind: 22 % of the area in Paraguay
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Feb | 35.5 °C | 49 % | 63 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 9 Feb | 36.3 °C | 51 % | 53 km/h | 1.4 mm | Very low 4 |
| 10 Feb | 33.8 °C | 62 % | 34 km/h | 5.3 mm | Very low 0 |
| 11 Feb | 36.2 °C | 51 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 4 |
| 12 Feb | 36.8 °C | 43 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 13 Feb | 37.0 °C | 45 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 14 Feb | 35.9 °C | 49 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 15 Feb | 37.3 °C | 43 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 16 Feb | 36.8 °C | 46 % | 52 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 17 Feb | 36.9 °C | 41 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 18 Feb | 37.6 °C | 46 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 19 Feb | 38.3 °C | 38 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 20 Feb | 33.7 °C | 53 % | 33 km/h | 1.1 mm | Low 8 |
| 21 Feb after | 31.1 °C | 66 % | 28 km/h | 27.8 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 6.3, a minimum humidity of 49% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 17.
FWI at the start
6.3
Minimum humidity
49 %
Days without rain
1
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Bahía Negra fire, February 2016
2,079 ha
13 days
FWI 6.3
Min. humidity 49 %
Mariscal Estigarribia fire, November 2017
4,141 ha
16 days
FWI 5.8
Min. humidity 49 %
163 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 21 Nov.
Bahía Negra fire, November 2023
2,355 ha
18 days
FWI 7.9
Min. humidity 51 %
22 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Mariscal Estigarribia fire, June 2019
2,026 ha
10 days
FWI 6.2
Min. humidity 48 %
208 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 19 Jun.
Fuerte Olimpo fire, November 2019
2,085 ha
4 days
FWI 5.7
Min. humidity 51 %
129 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 77.1 mm on 10 Nov.
Bahía Negra fire, March 2016
1,900 ha
9 days
FWI 5.7
Min. humidity 45 %
33 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 20 Mar.
What happened to them
- 10 days
- median duration
- 2,388 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 4.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 16 of 17 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (2,079 ha against a median of 2,388 ha) and lasted 13 days, against 10 days.
In 1 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.0 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
27.8 mmfirst rain
21 Febthe day after it ended
63km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 20 Feb, and on 21 Feb 27.8 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 17, with a median of 4.0 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 1 Feb 2016
After · 27 Feb 2016
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Detections table · 116Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bahía Negra fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 8 February 2016 to 20 February 2016 (13 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 February 2016 to 20 February 2016.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,079 hectares (20.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bahía Negra (2,085 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 63 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, class Moderate.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 17. Their median duration was 10 days and their median area 2,388 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. In 1 of 17, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.0 mm.
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: 132 · 911 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 9 February 2016 → 8 February 2016.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 9 February 2016 to 20 February 2016. 116 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.