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Carmelo Peralta fire, 17 October 2017 Carmelo Peralta

Out · last detection 21 Oct 2017, 17:31 UTC

The fire started on 17 October 2017 in Carmelo Peralta, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,060 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 110th largest in ALTO PARAGUAY since 2016 (of 412 with a page). Number 39 in Paraguay in 2017, of 261.

Burnt area
3,060ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
17 Oct 2017 – 21 Oct 2017
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
17 Oct
2017
Heat detections
248
in a single hotspot: 85 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
6.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Oct 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Oct21 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

17181921

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

The weather it burned in

40°high
62km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 21.1 mm on 29 Oct.

This area had burned before

5% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 153 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Carmelo Peralta where it started
    3,077 ha reached on 17 Oct
    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)
17 Oct 39.0 °C 27 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Oct 39.5 °C 26 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Oct 39.0 °C 25 % 50 km/h 1.4 mm High 30
20 Oct 31.8 °C 48 % 53 km/h 3.1 mm Low 11
21 Oct 34.7 °C 48 % 54 km/h 32.1 mm Very low 3
22 Oct after 25.2 °C 69 % 48 km/h 30.3 mm Very low 0
23 Oct after 29.7 °C 49 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
24 Oct after 34.7 °C 43 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Oct after 38.5 °C 38 % 44 km/h 10.6 mm Very low 4
26 Oct after 35.7 °C 34 % 62 km/h 5.2 mm Very low 5
27 Oct after 36.6 °C 39 % 52 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
28 Oct after 29.5 °C 63 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
29 Oct after 34.5 °C 52 % 62 km/h 21.1 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Oct 2017
After · 28 Oct 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 · 248Every 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 17 October 2017 and 21 October 2017: 5 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 3,060 hectares (30.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Carmelo Peralta (3,077 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, 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.