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Campinápolis fire, 12 August 2022 Campinápolis

Out · last detection 21 Aug 2022, 17:39 UTC

The fire started on 12 August 2022 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,674 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 771th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 209 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

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Burnt area
6,674ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
12 Aug 2022 – 20 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
12 Aug
2022
Heat detections
207
in a single hotspot: 105 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Average daily power
203MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

21 Aug 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Aug20 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

12 Aug 2022 · 154 MW · 18 13 Aug 2022 · 685 MW · 37 14 Aug 2022 · 599 MW · 36 15 Aug 2022 · 69 MW · 11 16 Aug 2022 · 13 MW · 11 17 Aug 2022 · 220 MW · 37 18 Aug 2022 · 145 MW · 28 19 Aug 2022 · 110 MW · 13 20 Aug 2022 · 34 MW · 6 21 Aug 2022 · 3 MW · 1
12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 16 Aug 18 Aug 20 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
48km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,502 ha in 2016, 159 ha in 2017, 1,244 ha in 2018, 1,869 ha in 2019, 997 ha in 2020, 2,424 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,344 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.2% of the area of London (67 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Campinápolis 15,347 inhabitants where it started
    6,721 ha reached on 12 Aug
    1.1 %

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)
12 Aug 32.5 °C 19 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
13 Aug 35.1 °C 18 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Aug 34.7 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Aug 34.8 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
16 Aug 33.8 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Aug 34.9 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
18 Aug 35.0 °C 22 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
19 Aug 28.7 °C 35 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Aug 31.6 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
21 Aug after 32.7 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Aug after 32.3 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
23 Aug after 32.6 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
24 Aug after 33.6 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Aug after 34.0 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
26 Aug after 34.8 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
27 Aug after 34.9 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
28 Aug after 35.1 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
29 Aug after 35.5 °C 18 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
30 Aug after 34.8 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
31 Aug after 34.2 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
1 Sept after 34.1 °C 23 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
2 Sept after 33.6 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
3 Sept after 35.3 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
4 Sept after 35.2 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Sept after 36.3 °C 17 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
6 Sept after 36.3 °C 15 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Aug 2022
After · 27 Aug 2022

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 23 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 75 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 34: 2.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak75 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM10108 µg/m³
Optical depth0.68
1011121314151617181920212223
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 · 207Every 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 12 August 2022 and 20 August 2022: 9 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 6,674 hectares (66.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Campinápolis (6,721 ha, 1.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.1 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 207 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.