How long did the Colíder fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2019 and 20 August 2019: 13 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 3,262 hectares (32.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Colíder (3,182 ha, 1.0 %); Terra Nova do Norte (102 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 45 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.

BR · Brazil · 2019-08-08 → 2019-08-20

Colíder fire, August 2019 Colíder, Terra Nova do Norte

Out · last detection 20 Aug 2019, 17:09 UTC

The fire started on 8 August 2019 in Colíder, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,262 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1803th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 852 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

Burnt area: 3,262ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 13days; 8 Aug 2019 – 20 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 8 Aug; 2019
Heat detections: 167; in a single hotspot: 337 MW
Danger at start: 36; High · FWI index
Energy released: 2.8GW; sum of detected power

Play back 20 Aug 2019

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Aug20 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

36°high

45km/h · peak gust

21%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,738 ha in 2017.

2,738 ha Terra Nova do Norte fire, September 2017 17,470 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Colíder 31,370 inhabitants where it started

3,182 ha reached on 8 Aug

1.0 %
Terra Nova do Norte 10,616 inhabitants

102 ha

0.0 %

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)
1 Aug	34.0 °C	28 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
2 Aug	35.0 °C	21 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
3 Aug	28.9 °C	40 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
4 Aug	29.5 °C	38 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
5 Aug	32.5 °C	36 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
6 Aug	33.9 °C	34 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
7 Aug	32.8 °C	30 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
8 Aug	33.0 °C	30 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
9 Aug	33.6 °C	29 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
10 Aug	33.8 °C	23 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
11 Aug	34.1 °C	27 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
12 Aug	34.4 °C	27 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
13 Aug	34.7 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
14 Aug	32.5 °C	38 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
15 Aug	34.7 °C	28 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
16 Aug	34.4 °C	33 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
17 Aug	34.1 °C	30 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
18 Aug	34.0 °C	32 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
19 Aug	34.5 °C	31 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
20 Aug	35.5 °C	27 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
21 Aug after	35.4 °C	28 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
22 Aug after	36.3 °C	26 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
23 Aug after	36.4 °C	27 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
24 Aug after	34.2 °C	38 %	26 km/h	0.1 mm	High 34
25 Aug after	33.8 °C	37 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
26 Aug after	34.5 °C	30 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
27 Aug after	34.8 °C	27 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
28 Aug after	35.2 °C	28 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
29 Aug after	35.3 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
30 Aug after	35.9 °C	28 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34

Before and after, from space

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Before · 1 Aug 2019

After · 27 Aug 2019

Before After

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 · 167Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Colíder fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2019 and 20 August 2019: 13 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 3,262 hectares (32.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Colíder (3,182 ha, 1.0 %); Terra Nova do Norte (102 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 45 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.

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