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Cabo Corrientes fire, 16 April 2017 Cabo Corrientes, Talpa de Allende

Out · last detection 21 Apr 2017, 08:44 UTC

The fire started on 16 April 2017 in Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,044 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 190th largest in Jalisco since 2016 (of 283 with a page). Number 236 in Mexico in 2017, of 375.

Burnt area
2,044ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
16 Apr 2017 – 21 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
16 Apr
2017
Heat detections
120
in a single hotspot: 124 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Apr21 Apr

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.

The weather it burned in

27°high
41km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 55 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Cabo Corrientes where it started
    1,751 ha reached on 16 Apr
    1.1 %
  2. Talpa de Allende
    305 ha reached on 19 Apr
    0.2 %

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.

Official record

According to CONAFOR, this fire started on 16 April 2017 and burned 1,115 ha (the satellite measured 2,044 ha). The two figures differ a lot, so these may not be exactly the same fire: take them as nearby records.

CONAFOR (Comisión Nacional Forestal), estadística de incendios forestales en datos.gob.mx (CC BY 4.0). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

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)
16 Apr 26.6 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
17 Apr 26.5 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
18 Apr 25.8 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Apr 25.2 °C 40 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
20 Apr 25.8 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Apr 24.8 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
22 Apr after 25.2 °C 49 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
23 Apr after 25.9 °C 50 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Apr after 25.7 °C 50 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
25 Apr after 26.3 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
26 Apr after 26.4 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
27 Apr after 26.7 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
28 Apr after 25.2 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
29 Apr after 25.2 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Apr after 25.8 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
1 May after 26.6 °C 44 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Apr 2017
After · 28 Apr 2017

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 · 120Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Cabo Corrientes fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 16 April 2017 and 21 April 2017: 6 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 2,044 hectares (20.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cabo Corrientes (1,751 ha, 1.1 %); Talpa de Allende (305 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.6 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mexico (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: 911

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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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.