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Cáceres fire, June 2024 Cáceres, Poconé

Out · last detection 30 Jun 2024, 04:35 UTC

The fire started on 2 June 2024 in Cáceres, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 28 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,964 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1433th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 921 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
3,964ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
28days
2 Jun 2024 – 29 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
2 Jun
2024
Heat detections
764
in a single hotspot: 124 MW
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
7.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

30 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jun29 Jun

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

36°high
45km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,630 ha in 2020, 205 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Cáceres 89,681 inhabitants where it started
    3,952 ha reached on 4 Jun
    0.2 %
  2. Poconé 31,217 inhabitants
    50 ha reached on 13 Jun
    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.

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)
28 May 20.7 °C 54 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
29 May 24.7 °C 47 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
30 May 28.9 °C 45 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
31 May 31.9 °C 42 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
1 Jun 33.2 °C 33 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Jun 34.0 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Jun 34.3 °C 40 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jun 33.0 °C 34 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
5 Jun 33.4 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
6 Jun 34.2 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
7 Jun 34.2 °C 34 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
8 Jun 34.6 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Jun 34.2 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Jun 34.7 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jun 35.0 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Jun 35.0 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Jun 34.9 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Jun 34.5 °C 35 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Jun 34.8 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jun 35.4 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Jun 34.9 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Jun 34.8 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Jun 35.1 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Jun 35.1 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Jun 35.4 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
22 Jun 35.1 °C 33 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
23 Jun 35.3 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jun 34.6 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
25 Jun 31.8 °C 48 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jun 26.7 °C 55 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
27 Jun 28.3 °C 50 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Jun 34.3 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
29 Jun 29.1 °C 51 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun after 21.1 °C 42 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Jul after 26.8 °C 40 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul after 34.0 °C 35 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul after 35.8 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Jul after 34.8 °C 35 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Jul after 35.7 °C 25 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Jul after 27.7 °C 44 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Jul after 28.3 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
8 Jul after 21.2 °C 53 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
9 Jul after 19.1 °C 59 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
10 Jul after 21.7 °C 54 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
11 Jul after 29.6 °C 41 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
12 Jul after 18.1 °C 58 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
13 Jul after 20.1 °C 45 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
14 Jul after 22.1 °C 46 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Jul after 25.1 °C 41 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 May 2024
After · 6 Jul 2024

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 25 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 201 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 96: 6.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak201 µg/m³
Days over the guideline12 days
PM10287 µg/m³
Optical depth0.93
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 764Every 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 Cáceres fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 June 2024 and 29 June 2024: 28 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 3,964 hectares (39.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cáceres (3,952 ha, 0.2 %); Poconé (50 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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 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.