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Carmelo Peralta fire, August 2016 Carmelo Peralta

Out · last detection 28 Aug 2016, 04:18 UTC

The fire started on 22 August 2016 in Carmelo Peralta, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,639 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 344th largest in ALTO PARAGUAY since 2016 (of 411 with a page). Number 100 in Paraguay in 2016, of 124.

Burnt area
1,639ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
22 Aug 2016 – 28 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Aug
2016
Heat detections
74
in a single hotspot: 64 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
933MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Aug28 Aug

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

37°high
58km/h · peak gust
31%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 16.2 mm on 29 Aug.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Carmelo Peralta where it started
    1,649 ha reached on 22 Aug
    0.3 %

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)
15 Aug 36.4 °C 34 % 58 km/h 0.4 mm High 31
16 Aug 35.3 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.4 mm High 32
17 Aug 35.8 °C 35 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Aug 33.5 °C 49 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Aug 32.1 °C 54 % 55 km/h 14.7 mm Very low 3
20 Aug 28.6 °C 62 % 56 km/h 24.0 mm Very low 2
21 Aug 20.7 °C 39 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
22 Aug 22.3 °C 35 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
23 Aug 25.6 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
24 Aug 29.6 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Aug 34.9 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
26 Aug 36.6 °C 32 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
27 Aug 36.2 °C 35 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
28 Aug 32.1 °C 49 % 57 km/h 13.3 mm Very low 3
29 Aug after 20.6 °C 87 % 36 km/h 16.2 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Aug 2016
After · 4 Sept 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 · 74Every 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 Carmelo Peralta fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 August 2016 and 28 August 2016: 7 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 1,639 hectares (16.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Carmelo Peralta (1,649 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 58 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 Paraguay (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: 132 · 911

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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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.