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Comodoro fire, June 2022 Comodoro

Out · last detection 26 Jun 2022, 18:29 UTC

The fire started on 21 June 2022 in Comodoro, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,210 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1024th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 277 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

Burnt area
5,210ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
21 Jun 2022 – 26 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
21 Jun
2022
Heat detections
175
in a single hotspot: 267 MW
Danger at start
7
Low · FWI index
Energy released
8.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

26 Jun 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jun26 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

212223242526

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
28km/h · peak gust
36%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

40% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,898 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,070 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Comodoro 18,238 inhabitants where it started
    5,257 ha reached on 20 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
20 Jun 29.6 °C 44 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
21 Jun 30.4 °C 39 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
22 Jun 30.4 °C 38 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
23 Jun 30.1 °C 36 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
24 Jun 30.6 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jun 29.1 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
26 Jun 27.6 °C 45 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
27 Jun after 28.7 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun after 29.4 °C 38 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
29 Jun after 27.6 °C 45 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
30 Jun after 29.1 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
1 Jul after 29.7 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
2 Jul after 30.9 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Jul after 31.5 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Jul after 31.2 °C 39 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jul after 30.2 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
6 Jul after 30.1 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jun 2022
After · 3 Jul 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.

Detections table · 175Every 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 Comodoro fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 June 2022 and 26 June 2022: 6 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 5,210 hectares (52.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Comodoro (5,257 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.6 °C, humidity dropped to 36 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, class Moderate.
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.