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Campinápolis fire, August 2016 Campinápolis, Nova Xavantina

Out · last detection 24 Aug 2016, 18:04 UTC

The fire started on 22 August 2016 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,266 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1802th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 562 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area
3,266ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
22 Aug 2016 – 24 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
22 Aug
2016
Heat detections
88
in a single hotspot: 66 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Aug24 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

222324

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
37km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months 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. Campinápolis 15,347 inhabitants where it started
    3,128 ha reached on 22 Aug
    0.5 %
  2. Nova Xavantina 24,345 inhabitants
    159 ha reached on 24 Aug
    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)
22 Aug 28.2 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
23 Aug 33.1 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Aug 35.6 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
25 Aug after 33.9 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
26 Aug after 34.8 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
27 Aug after 35.5 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Aug after 35.0 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 35
29 Aug after 30.1 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Aug after 32.6 °C 43 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm High 33
31 Aug after 32.1 °C 47 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Sept after 35.3 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
2 Sept after 35.0 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Sept after 32.7 °C 42 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Aug 2016
After · 31 Aug 2016

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 · 88Every 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 Campinápolis fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 August 2016 and 24 August 2016: 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 3,266 hectares (32.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Campinápolis (3,128 ha, 0.5 %); Nova Xavantina (159 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.6 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 37 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 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.