Burned area
satellite only2,894ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 2 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
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AR · Argentina · –
Bermejo fire, January 2022 Bermejo
Out · last detection 17 Jan 2022, 18:27 UTC
The fire started on 2 January 2022 in Bermejo, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,894 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 179th largest in Formosa since 2016 (of 587 with a page). Number 167 in Argentina in 2022, of 441.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only16days
2 Jan 2022 to 17 Jan 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 17 Jan 2022, 18:27 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only2 Jan 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 2 Jan 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only153
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 216 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 2 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only529MW
Total radiative power on 16 January 2022; hotspots that day: 46.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 16 Jan 2022
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model49.2FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 9.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 2 Jan 2022, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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Weather during the fire
model42.6°C · 22% RH
High of 42.6 °C and minimum humidity of 22% on 2 January 2022; gusts of 60 km/h on 17 January 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 2 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 9 January 2022 → 2 January 2022.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,894 ha
- Dates
- 2 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
- Name
- Bermejo
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/bermejo-formosa-2022-01?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire bermejo-formosa-2022-01.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-02 | 11 | 108 | 42.6 | 30.2 | 22 | 17.5 | 47.2 | 0 | 49.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-03 | 4 | 10 | 39.1 | 29.8 | 36 | 16.2 | 31.3 | 0.8 | 30.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-04 | 3 | 35 | 40.1 | 24.8 | 31 | 13.3 | 31.7 | 0.6 | 32 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-05 | 2 | 19 | 37.2 | 23.9 | 30 | 17.1 | 40 | 1.5 | 29.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-06 | 2 | 9 | 37.9 | 24.8 | 23 | 12.9 | 34.2 | 0 | 36.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-07 | 2 | 21 | 38.8 | 22.9 | 25 | 12.9 | 30.6 | 0 | 36.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-08 | 0 | 0 | 39.3 | 23.2 | 23 | 12.2 | 30.2 | 0 | 38 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-09 | 1 | 5 | 39 | 26.2 | 22 | 12.2 | 27.4 | 0 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-10 | 2 | 48 | 39.5 | 25.5 | 23 | 15.7 | 37.1 | 0 | 42.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-11 | 24 | 493 | 40.7 | 23.8 | 21 | 13.7 | 32.4 | 0 | 42.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-12 | 9 | 248 | 41.1 | 23.7 | 16 | 13.8 | 32 | 0 | 47.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-13 | 9 | 96 | 40.8 | 24.4 | 20 | 14.9 | 32.4 | 0 | 49.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-14 | 5 | 340 | 39.3 | 26 | 30 | 17.4 | 40.7 | 0.4 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-01-15 | 23 | 347 | 39.9 | 27.1 | 27 | 26 | 60.1 | 0 | 57 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-01-16 | 46 | 529 | 42 | 28.1 | 23 | 25.3 | 59.4 | 0 | 56.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-01-17 | 10 | 49 | 42.2 | 30 | 24 | 27.3 | 60.5 | 0 | 59.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-01-18 | 0 | 0 | 41.3 | 29.8 | 24 | 22 | 54.7 | 0.1 | 53.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-19 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 26.6 | 40 | 11.2 | 33.5 | 0 | 33.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-01-20 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 25.2 | 27 | 16.8 | 38.2 | 0.4 | 43.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-01-21 | 0 | 0 | 42.6 | 27.8 | 22 | 20.5 | 49.7 | 0.1 | 53 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-22 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 28.3 | 19 | 25.7 | 61.9 | 0 | 62.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-23 | 0 | 0 | 43.1 | 29.9 | 22 | 21 | 55.4 | 0.4 | 56.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-24 | 0 | 0 | 41.1 | 26.5 | 25 | 12.6 | 40.7 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-01-25 | 0 | 0 | 42.9 | 28.8 | 23 | 16.7 | 43.2 | 0 | 52 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-26 | 0 | 0 | 43.5 | 30.7 | 20 | 17.8 | 41.4 | 0 | 53.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-01-27 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 24.4 | 40 | 20.5 | 41.8 | 12.7 | 9.3 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 2,894ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 16days
- 2 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- departments
- Started on
- 2 Jan
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 153
- in a single hotspot: 216 MW
- Danger at start
- 49
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 157MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
2 Jan17 Jan
17 Jan 2022
How it evolved, day by day
2 Jan
5 Jan
9 Jan
12 Jan
16 Jan
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
43°high
60km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity
It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.7 mm on 27 Jan.
This area had burned before
93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 410 ha in 2017, 1,091 ha in 2019, 3,227 ha in 2020, 1,828 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,694 ha that had burned before.
- 2,378 ha Bermejo fire, July 2020 8,260 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 426 ha Bermejo fire, December 2021 2,499 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 101 ha Bermejo fire, October 2021 2,474 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Bermejo where it started2,894 ha reached on 2 Jan0.2 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jan | 42.6 °C | 22 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 3 Jan | 39.1 °C | 36 % | 31 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Jan | 40.1 °C | 31 % | 32 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 32 |
| 5 Jan | 37.2 °C | 30 % | 40 km/h | 1.5 mm | High 30 |
| 6 Jan | 37.9 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 7 Jan | 38.8 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 8 Jan | 39.3 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 9 Jan | 39.0 °C | 22 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 10 Jan | 39.5 °C | 23 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 11 Jan | 40.7 °C | 21 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 12 Jan | 41.1 °C | 16 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 13 Jan | 40.8 °C | 20 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 14 Jan | 39.3 °C | 30 % | 41 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 46 |
| 15 Jan | 39.9 °C | 27 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 16 Jan | 42.0 °C | 23 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 17 Jan | 42.2 °C | 24 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 18 Jan after | 41.3 °C | 24 % | 55 km/h | 0.1 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 19 Jan after | 36.0 °C | 40 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 20 Jan after | 41.0 °C | 27 % | 38 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 43 |
| 21 Jan after | 42.6 °C | 22 % | 50 km/h | 0.1 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 22 Jan after | 42.0 °C | 19 % | 62 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 23 Jan after | 43.1 °C | 22 % | 55 km/h | 0.4 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 24 Jan after | 41.1 °C | 25 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 25 Jan after | 42.9 °C | 23 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 26 Jan after | 43.5 °C | 20 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 27 Jan after | 33.2 °C | 40 % | 42 km/h | 12.7 mm | Low 9 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 49.2, a minimum humidity of 22% and 9 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 23.
FWI at the start
49.2
Minimum humidity
22 %
Days without rain
9
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Bermejo fire, January 2022
2,894 ha
16 days
FWI 49.2
Min. humidity 22 %
Bermejo fire, August 2024
4,189 ha
13 days
FWI 47.7
Min. humidity 22 %
34 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.6 mm on 22 Aug.
General Güemes fire, August 2018
2,454 ha
3 days
FWI 49.7
Min. humidity 24 %
184 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 2 Sept.
Patiño fire, August 2018
2,249 ha
2 days
FWI 49.0
Min. humidity 21 %
175 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 12.7 mm on 19 Aug.
Mariscal Estigarribia fire, October 2019
2,227 ha
4 days
FWI 50.4
Min. humidity 21 %
116 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.1 mm on 5 Nov.
Patiño fire, July 2020
2,424 ha
4 days
FWI 45.9
Min. humidity 21 %
201 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.9 mm on 24 Jul.
What happened to them
- 4 days
- median duration
- 2,318 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 6.1 mm
- rain at the end (median; 15 of 23 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (2,894 ha against a median of 2,318 ha) and lasted 16 days, against 4 days.
In 8 of 23, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 6.1 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
12.7 mmfirst rain
27 Jan10 days after it ended
60km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 17 Jan, and on 27 Jan 12.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 15 of 23, with a median of 6.1 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 26 Dec 2021
After · 24 Jan 2022
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Detections table · 153Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bermejo fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 January 2022 to 17 January 2022 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 January 2022 to 17 January 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,894 hectares (28.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bermejo (2,894 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 42.6 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, class Extreme.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 23. Their median duration was 4 days and their median area 2,318 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. In 8 of 23, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 6.1 mm.
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: 911 · 100 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 9 January 2022 → 2 January 2022.
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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 9 January 2022 to 17 January 2022. 153 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.