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Benjamín Aceval fire, 10 September 2017 Benjamín Aceval, General Jose Maria Bruguez

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2017, 16:59 UTC

The fire started on 10 September 2017 in Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,070 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 444th largest in PRESIDENTE HAYES since 2016 (of 738 with a page). Number 120 in Paraguay in 2017, of 261.

Burnt area
2,070ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
10 Sept 2017 – 10 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
10 Sept
2017
Heat detections
53
in a single hotspot: 122 MW
Danger at start
49
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
643MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Sept10 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

10 Sept 2017 · 643 MW · 53

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
89km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.4 mm on 11 Sept.

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 333 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Benjamín Aceval where it started
    1,431 ha reached on 10 Sept
    0.1 %
  2. General Jose Maria Bruguez
    643 ha reached on 10 Sept
    0.1 %

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)
9 Sept 37.9 °C 26 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
10 Sept 38.1 °C 28 % 89 km/h 2.6 mm Extreme 53
11 Sept after 22.8 °C 48 % 48 km/h 3.4 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Sept 2017
After · 17 Sept 2017

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 · 53Every 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 Benjamín Aceval fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 September 2017 and 10 September 2017: 1 day 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 2,070 hectares (20.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Benjamín Aceval (1,431 ha, 0.1 %); General Jose Maria Bruguez (643 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.1 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 89 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (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: 132 · 911

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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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.