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Candeias do Jamari fire, August 2024 Candeias do Jamari

Out · last detection 11 Sept 2024, 17:41 UTC

The fire started on 2 August 2024 in Candeias do Jamari, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 40 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 31,325 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Rondônia since 2016 (of 300 with a page). Number 91 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
31,325ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
40days
2 Aug 2024 – 10 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
2 Aug
2024
Heat detections
3,177
in a single hotspot: 432 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Energy released
40.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Aug10 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

39°high
38km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 19 Sept.

This area had burned before

80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,181 ha in 2016, 1,961 ha in 2017, 5,722 ha in 2018, 8,866 ha in 2019, 3,826 ha in 2020, 16,887 ha in 2021, 21,711 ha in 2022, 8,928 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 25,117 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Candeias do Jamari where it started
    31,503 ha reached on 29 Jul
    4.6 %

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)
29 Jul 36.7 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
30 Jul 37.6 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
31 Jul 36.8 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
1 Aug 37.1 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
2 Aug 36.3 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
3 Aug 35.6 °C 35 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Aug 36.0 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
5 Aug 37.2 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Aug 36.1 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Aug 36.0 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
8 Aug 37.6 °C 24 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
9 Aug 35.5 °C 32 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Aug 29.7 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Aug 32.4 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Aug 34.9 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Aug 35.8 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Aug 36.8 °C 22 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
15 Aug 35.8 °C 31 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 Aug 35.2 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.8 mm High 25
17 Aug 37.5 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Aug 37.3 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Aug 37.9 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
20 Aug 36.5 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
21 Aug 37.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
22 Aug 37.3 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Aug 39.4 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
24 Aug 37.1 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
25 Aug 33.0 °C 39 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Aug 31.3 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
27 Aug 34.7 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Aug 36.6 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
29 Aug 37.1 °C 27 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
30 Aug 36.2 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
31 Aug 37.9 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
1 Sept 38.0 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
2 Sept 37.0 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
3 Sept 35.4 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
4 Sept 37.2 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Sept 38.9 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
6 Sept 37.4 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
7 Sept 34.5 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Sept 37.2 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Sept 36.8 °C 33 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
10 Sept 36.4 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
11 Sept after 36.8 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.4 mm High 34
12 Sept after 37.6 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Sept after 39.0 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Sept after 38.7 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
15 Sept after 34.8 °C 40 % 26 km/h 0.3 mm High 32
16 Sept after 35.0 °C 44 % 30 km/h 1.7 mm Moderate 17
17 Sept after 36.4 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
18 Sept after 36.4 °C 38 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
19 Sept after 36.1 °C 39 % 33 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 19

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Jul 2024
After · 17 Sept 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 27 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 853 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 412: 27 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak853 µg/m³
Days over the guideline45 days
PM101,222 µg/m³
Optical depth5.73
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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 · 3,177Every 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 Candeias do Jamari fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 August 2024 and 10 September 2024: 40 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 31,325 hectares (313.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Candeias do Jamari (31,503 ha, 4.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.4 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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.