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Banguigny fire, 12 April 2017 Banguigny, Baguinet

Out · last detection 19 Apr 2017, 13:45 UTC

The fire started on 12 April 2017 in Banguigny, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,204 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 60th largest in Boké since 2016 (of 237 with a page). Number 60 in Guinea in 2017, of 172.

Burnt area
3,204ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
12 Apr 2017 – 18 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
12 Apr
2017
Heat detections
133
in a single hotspot: 299 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
2.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Apr18 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
38km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

17% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 540 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Banguigny where it started
    2,701 ha reached on 8 Apr
    6.8 %
  2. Baguinet
    522 ha reached on 8 Apr
    1.2 %

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)
12 Apr 37.3 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm High 31
13 Apr 38.2 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Apr 37.1 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Apr 37.3 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Apr 37.6 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
17 Apr 37.2 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
18 Apr 39.3 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
19 Apr after 38.7 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Apr after 36.5 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
21 Apr after 38.3 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Apr after 36.2 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
23 Apr after 36.0 °C 36 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
24 Apr after 36.3 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
25 Apr after 38.4 °C 21 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Apr after 38.5 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
27 Apr after 36.2 °C 37 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
28 Apr after 35.9 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Apr 2017
After · 25 Apr 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 · 133Every 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 Banguigny fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 April 2017 and 18 April 2017: 7 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 3,204 hectares (32.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Banguigny (2,701 ha, 6.8 %); Baguinet (522 ha, 1.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.