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Barra do Garças fire, 13 July 2016 Barra do Garças, General Carneiro

Out · last detection 17 Jul 2016, 16:36 UTC

The fire started on 13 July 2016 in Barra do Garças, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,048 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1396th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 395 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area
4,048ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
13 Jul 2016 – 17 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
13 Jul
2016
Heat detections
114
in a single hotspot: 73 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jul 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jul17 Jul

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

35°high
30km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 47 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Barra do Garças 69,210 inhabitants where it started
    3,887 ha reached on 13 Jul
    0.4 %
  2. General Carneiro 6,037 inhabitants
    187 ha reached on 15 Jul
    0.0 %

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)
8 Jul 32.6 °C 37 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Jul 34.3 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Jul 34.8 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jul 34.5 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
12 Jul 34.2 °C 31 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
13 Jul 34.6 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
14 Jul 34.2 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jul 34.4 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jul 34.1 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Jul 28.7 °C 41 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jul after 31.0 °C 35 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Jul after 31.9 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Jul after 32.0 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jul after 32.5 °C 29 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Jul after 32.5 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Jul after 33.4 °C 26 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
24 Jul after 33.6 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jul after 31.3 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Jul after 33.6 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
27 Jul after 33.9 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jul 2016
After · 24 Jul 2016

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 · 114Every 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 Garças fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 13 July 2016 and 17 July 2016: 5 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 4,048 hectares (40.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Barra do Garças (3,887 ha, 0.4 %); General Carneiro (187 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.