How long did the Boli fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 December 2024 and 30 December 2024: 5 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 1,048 hectares (10.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Boli (1,055 ha, 3.4 %).

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.

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2024-12-26 → 2024-12-30

Boli fire, December 2024 Boli

Out · last detection 30 Dec 2024, 13:20 UTC

The fire started on 26 December 2024 in Boli, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,048 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 120th largest in Lacs since 2016 (of 139 with a page). Number 148 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2024, of 165.

Burnt area: 1,048ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 5days; 26 Dec 2024 – 30 Dec 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; sub-prefectures
Started on: 26 Dec; 2024
Heat detections: 23; in a single hotspot: 36 MW
Energy released: 371MW; sum of detected power

Play back 30 Dec 2024

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Dec30 Dec

How it evolved, day by day

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

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 347 ha in 2018.

347 ha Boli fire, January 2018 1,038 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Boli where it started

1,055 ha reached on 26 Dec

3.4 %

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.

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Before · 19 Dec 2024

After · 6 Jan 2025

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 28 December 2024 the air beside the fire reached 99 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 75: 5.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak99 µg/m³

Days over the guideline10 days

PM10206 µg/m³

Optical depth0.95

WHO 15

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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 23Every 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 Boli fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 December 2024 and 30 December 2024: 5 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 1,048 hectares (10.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Boli (1,055 ha, 3.4 %).
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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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