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Bedanda fire, May 2022 Bedanda

Out · last measured on 7 May 2022

The fire started on 5 May 2022 in Bedanda, Guinea-Bissau, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,416 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Tombali since 2016 (of 18 with a page). Number 10 in Guinea-Bissau in 2022, of 36.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
1,416ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
5 May 2022 – 7 May 2022
Municipalities hit
1
sectors
Started on
5 May
2022

Where it burned

This area had burned before

18% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 260 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Bedanda where it started
    1,041 ha
    0.9 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Apr 2022
After · 14 May 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.

Other fires nearby

All fires in Guinea-Bissau ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bedanda fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 May 2022 and 7 May 2022: 3 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 1,416 hectares (14.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bedanda (1,041 ha, 0.9 %).
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea-Bissau (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 ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.