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Barra do Bugres fire, 7 August 2024 Barra do Bugres, Vale de São Domingos

Out · last detection 11 Aug 2024, 17:20 UTC

The fire started on 7 August 2024 in Barra do Bugres, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,726 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1157th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 733 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
4,726ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
7 Aug 2024 – 10 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
7 Aug
2024
Heat detections
199
in a single hotspot: 98 MW
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Aug 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Aug10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

781011

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

33°high
45km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

38% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 658 ha in 2016, 1,392 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,792 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Barra do Bugres where it started
    3,758 ha reached on 7 Aug
    0.6 %
  2. Vale de São Domingos 2,904 inhabitants
    991 ha reached on 7 Aug
    0.5 %

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)
7 Aug 33.1 °C 24 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
8 Aug 29.3 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
9 Aug 15.5 °C 60 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
10 Aug 22.0 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
11 Aug after 28.4 °C 25 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Aug after 25.7 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
13 Aug after 27.8 °C 20 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Aug after 33.9 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Aug after 35.7 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Aug after 34.5 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Aug after 35.5 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Aug after 36.0 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
19 Aug after 36.1 °C 17 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
20 Aug after 36.3 °C 16 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
21 Aug after 36.0 °C 17 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Jul 2024
After · 17 Aug 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 9 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 109 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 59: 3.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak109 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10156 µg/m³
Optical depth2.07
5678910111213
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 199Every 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 Barra do Bugres fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 August 2024 and 10 August 2024: 4 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 4,726 hectares (47.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Barra do Bugres (3,758 ha, 0.6 %); Vale de São Domingos (991 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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.