How long did the Bilimono fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 February 2017 and 23 February 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 2,195 hectares (22.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bilimono (2,208 ha, 0.7 %); Parc national de la Comoé (2 ha, 0.0 %).

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2017-02-23 → 2017-02-23

Bilimono fire, 23 February 2017 Bilimono, Parc national de la Comoé

Out · last detection 23 Feb 2017, 14:16 UTC

The fire started on 23 February 2017 in Bilimono, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,195 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 69th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 46 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017, of 174.

The power measured by the satellite is low (27.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 2,195ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 1day; 23 Feb 2017 – 23 Feb 2017
Municipalities hit: 2; sub-prefectures
Started on: 23 Feb; 2017
Heat detections: 53; in a single hotspot: 28 MW
Energy released: 318MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Feb23 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

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

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2016.

2 ha Bilimono fire, December 2016 8,520 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Bilimono where it started

2,208 ha reached on 23 Feb

0.7 %
Parc national de la Comoé

2 ha reached on 23 Feb

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 16 Feb 2017

After · 2 Mar 2017

Before After

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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bilimono fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 February 2017 and 23 February 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 2,195 hectares (22.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bilimono (2,208 ha, 0.7 %); Parc national de la Comoé (2 ha, 0.0 %).
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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: 180

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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 ADM3 (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.

Where it burned