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Cona County fire, December 2016 China

Out · last measured on 17 Dec 2016

The fire started on 10 December 2016 in Cona County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,156 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Tibet Autonomous Region since 2016 (of 31 with a page). Number 133 in China in 2016, of 180.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
1,156ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
10 Dec 2016 – 17 Dec 2016
Municipalities hit
0
counties
Started on
10 Dec
2016
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

17°high
35km/h · peak gust
43%lowest humidity

It had gone 57 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

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)
10 Dec 16.9 °C 56 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
11 Dec 15.5 °C 43 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
12 Dec 14.6 °C 51 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
13 Dec 15.8 °C 51 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
14 Dec 15.0 °C 55 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
15 Dec 14.6 °C 48 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
16 Dec 15.9 °C 49 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
17 Dec 14.9 °C 50 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
18 Dec after 13.5 °C 51 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
19 Dec after 14.3 °C 57 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
20 Dec after 14.1 °C 57 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
21 Dec after 15.3 °C 58 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
22 Dec after 16.4 °C 56 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
23 Dec after 13.2 °C 65 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm Low 7
24 Dec after 15.2 °C 52 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Dec after 14.5 °C 62 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm Low 8
26 Dec after 12.7 °C 58 % 37 km/h 0.7 mm Low 6
27 Dec after 13.7 °C 50 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Dec 2016
After · 24 Dec 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.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Cona County fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 December 2016 and 17 December 2016: 8 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 1,156 hectares (11.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 16.9 °C, humidity dropped to 43 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, class Low.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of China (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: 119

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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 ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.