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Campinápolis fire, 29 August 2017 Campinápolis

Out · last detection 7 Sept 2017, 16:17 UTC

The fire started on 29 August 2017 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,734 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1546th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 714 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

Burnt area
3,734ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
29 Aug 2017 – 7 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
29 Aug
2017
Heat detections
143
in a single hotspot: 45 MW
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Sept 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Aug7 Sept

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

38°high
44km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,250 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Campinápolis 15,347 inhabitants where it started
    3,761 ha reached on 24 Aug
    0.6 %

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)
24 Aug 34.3 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
25 Aug 34.4 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
26 Aug 36.0 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Aug 37.0 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
28 Aug 36.5 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
29 Aug 36.2 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Aug 37.3 °C 20 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
31 Aug 37.1 °C 19 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Sept 37.9 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
2 Sept 35.9 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
3 Sept 34.4 °C 25 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Sept 33.7 °C 28 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
5 Sept 34.3 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
6 Sept 35.1 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
7 Sept 36.3 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
8 Sept after 37.6 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Sept after 37.3 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Sept after 36.8 °C 22 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Sept after 37.2 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
12 Sept after 37.1 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
13 Sept after 35.9 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
14 Sept after 36.5 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Sept after 36.6 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
16 Sept after 35.2 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Sept after 34.3 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Sept after 36.2 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
19 Sept after 37.3 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Sept after 36.5 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
21 Sept after 32.8 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.8 mm High 34
22 Sept after 34.9 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Sept after 35.5 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Sept after 37.3 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Aug 2017
After · 14 Sept 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 · 143Every 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 29 August 2017 and 7 September 2017: 10 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 3,734 hectares (37.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Campinápolis (3,761 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.9 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, class Extreme.
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.