Bilimono fire, 16 December 2022 Bilimono
The fire started on 16 December 2022 in Bilimono, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,080 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 234th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 109 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2022, of 127.
- Burnt area
- 1,080ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 5days
- 16 Dec 2022 – 20 Dec 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 16 Dec
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 29
- in a single hotspot: 53 MW
- Energy released
- 514MW
- 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
97% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 593 ha in 2016, 553 ha in 2020, 886 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,051 ha that had burned before.
- 593 ha Parc national de la Comoé fire, December 2016 36,896 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 536 ha Bilimono fire, December 2021 1,369 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 501 ha Bilimono fire, January 2020 1,379 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 191 ha Bilimono fire, December 2021 1,384 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 159 ha Bilimono fire, January 2021 5,088 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 52 ha Parc national de la Comoé fire, December 2019 73,087 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 started1,087 ha reached on 16 Dec0.3 %
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 · 29Every 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
- 30,932 haParc national de la Comoé7 January 2022 · 20 days · 25 km away
- 39,531 haParc national de la Comoé27 November 2024 · 28 days · 29 km away
- 90,945 haParc national de la Comoé6 December 2018 · 33 days · 31 km away
- 36,896 haParc national de la Comoé20 December 2016 · 28 days · 32 km away
- 73,087 haParc national de la Comoé12 December 2019 · 55 days · 36 km away
- 35,713 haParc national de la Comoé7 December 2025 · 32 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bilimono fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 December 2022 to 20 December 2022 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 19 December 2022 to 19 December 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,080 hectares (10.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bilimono (1,087 ha, 0.3 %).
- 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.