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Baures fire, 10 September 2022 Baures

Out · last detection 28 Sept 2022, 17:28 UTC

The fire started on 10 September 2022 in Baures, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 19 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,137 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 414th largest in Beni since 2016 (of 902 with a page). Number 106 in Bolivia in 2022, of 222.

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Burnt area
5,137ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
19days
10 Sept 2022 – 28 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Sept
2022
Heat detections
261
in a single hotspot: 214 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Average daily power
413MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Sept28 Sept
28 Sept 2022

How it evolved, day by day

16 Sept 2022 · 45 MW · 14 17 Sept 2022 · 224 MW · 12 18 Sept 2022 · 673 MW · 22 19 Sept 2022 · 1,122 MW · 58 20 Sept 2022 · 1,693 MW · 71 21 Sept 2022 · 973 MW · 52 22 Sept 2022 · 77 MW · 13 23 Sept 2022 · 10 MW · 2 24 Sept 2022 · 8 MW · 4 25 Sept 2022 · 93 MW · 5 26 Sept 2022 · 4 MW · 4 28 Sept 2022 · 34 MW · 4
16 Sept 18 Sept 20 Sept 22 Sept 24 Sept 26 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
43km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 27 Sept.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,232 ha in 2016, 1,595 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,667 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.2% of the area of London (51 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Baures 7,488 inhabitants where it started
    3,070 ha reached on 16 Sept
    0.2 %

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.

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)
10 Sept 28.1 °C 53 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm High 23
11 Sept 33.1 °C 41 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
12 Sept 34.7 °C 43 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 23
13 Sept 35.3 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
14 Sept 32.7 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
15 Sept 28.2 °C 43 % 43 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 21
16 Sept 32.6 °C 36 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 Sept 35.3 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Sept 35.6 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
19 Sept 35.4 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
20 Sept 35.3 °C 41 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm High 31
21 Sept 36.1 °C 36 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Sept 33.0 °C 43 % 34 km/h 2.7 mm Moderate 15
23 Sept 29.2 °C 49 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 20
24 Sept 34.6 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
25 Sept 35.7 °C 42 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
26 Sept 36.3 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
27 Sept 32.5 °C 52 % 35 km/h 1.7 mm Moderate 14

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Sept 2022
After · 5 Oct 2022

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 22 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 175 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 102: 6.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak175 µg/m³
Days over the guideline22 days
PM10250 µg/m³
Optical depth2.46
891011121314151617181920212223242526272829
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 · 261Every 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 Baures fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 September 2022 to 28 September 2022 (19 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 September 2022 to 26 September 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,137 hectares (51.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Baures (3,070 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bolivia (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: 119 · 110 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night 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 10 September 2022 to 26 September 2022. 261 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 (Public Domain). 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.