Bilimono fire, 19 December 2019 Bilimono
The fire started on 19 December 2019 in Bilimono, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,308 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 182th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 74 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2019, of 146.
- Burnt area
- 1,308ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 19 Dec 2019 – 21 Dec 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 19 Dec
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 25
- in a single hotspot: 78 MW
- Energy released
- 476MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
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
37% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 347 ha in 2016, 31 ha in 2017, 292 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 486 ha that had burned before.
- 347 ha Bilimono fire, December 2016 8,520 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 249 ha Parc national de la Comoé fire, December 2018 90,945 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 42 ha Bilimono fire, January 2018 1,024 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 31 ha Bilimono fire, December 2017 3,533 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Bilimono where it started1,316 ha reached on 19 Dec0.4 %
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.
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 · 25Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bilimono fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 19 December 2019 and 21 December 2019: 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 1,308 hectares (13.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bilimono (1,316 ha, 0.4 %).
- 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.