Bannach fire, August 2019 Bannach, Cumaru do Norte
The fire started on 26 August 2019 in Bannach, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,464 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 243th largest in Pará since 2016 (of 1096 with a page). Number 181 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.
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- Burnt area
- 9,464ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 18days
- 26 Aug 2019 – 12 Sept 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 26 Aug
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 343
- in a single hotspot: 85 MW
- Danger at start
- 37
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 144MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 47 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 15 Sept.
This area had burned before
50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,913 ha in 2017.
- 1,860 ha Cumaru do Norte fire, August 2017 9,487 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 200 ha Bannach fire, September 2017 4,072 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2 ha Cumaru do Norte fire, August 2017 17,696 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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5,420 ha reached on 26 Aug1.8 %
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Cumaru do Norte 14,036 inhabitants4,097 ha reached on 26 Aug0.2 %
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 2020Inside the perimeter there were about 0.40 hectares of built-up land and about 30 residents (GHSL 2020, 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)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug | 33.7 °C | 32 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 27 Aug | 34.1 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 28 Aug | 34.3 °C | 27 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 29 Aug | 34.9 °C | 29 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 30 Aug | 34.9 °C | 29 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 31 Aug | 33.8 °C | 31 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 1 Sept | 34.7 °C | 30 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 2 Sept | 35.2 °C | 32 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 3 Sept | 35.3 °C | 32 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 4 Sept | 34.5 °C | 38 % | 36 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 34 |
| 5 Sept | 33.2 °C | 47 % | 32 km/h | 1.6 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 6 Sept | 32.0 °C | 47 % | 34 km/h | 2.8 mm | Low 11 |
| 7 Sept | 32.1 °C | 36 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 8 Sept | 33.3 °C | 28 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 9 Sept | 34.4 °C | 33 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 10 Sept | 33.2 °C | 37 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 11 Sept | 35.3 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 12 Sept | 34.1 °C | 37 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 13 Sept after | 34.9 °C | 34 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 14 Sept after | 33.5 °C | 38 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 15 Sept after | 33.4 °C | 40 % | 27 km/h | 1.3 mm | Moderate 19 |
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.
Detections table · 343Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 17,696 haCumaru do Norte25 August 2017 · 32 days · 10 km away
- 59,116 haCumaru do Norte14 August 2024 · 41 days · 12 km away
- 28,956 haBannach17 August 2022 · 28 days · 16 km away
- 26,430 haCumaru do NorteAugust 2020 · 20 days · 16 km away
- 13,577 haCumaru do Norte21 August 2022 · 25 days · 18 km away
- 27,202 haBannachJuly 2024 · 19 days · 21 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bannach fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 26 August 2019 to 12 September 2019 (18 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 August 2019 to 5 September 2019.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 9,464 hectares (94.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bannach (5,420 ha, 1.8 %); Cumaru do Norte (4,097 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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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 26 August 2019 to 5 September 2019. 343 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 2020, 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 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.