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Concepcion fire, 20 August 2017 Concepcion, San Carlos

Out · last detection 21 Aug 2017, 18:14 UTC

The fire started on 20 August 2017 in Concepcion, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,152 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 61th largest in Concepción since 2016 (of 195 with a page). Number 35 in Paraguay in 2017, of 261.

Burnt area
3,152ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
20 Aug 2017 – 21 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
20 Aug
2017
Heat detections
74
in a single hotspot: 35 MW
Danger at start
3
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
746MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Aug 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Aug21 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

2021

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

The weather it burned in

23°high
55km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 55 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Concepcion where it started
    2,581 ha reached on 20 Aug
    0.4 %
  2. San Carlos
    580 ha reached on 20 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)
20 Aug 23.0 °C 43 % 55 km/h 2.4 mm Very low 3
21 Aug 21.6 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
22 Aug after 27.2 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
23 Aug after 34.1 °C 33 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Aug after 35.6 °C 26 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
25 Aug after 35.1 °C 27 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
26 Aug after 35.3 °C 27 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
27 Aug after 35.0 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Aug after 36.9 °C 26 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
29 Aug after 36.8 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
30 Aug after 26.2 °C 48 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
31 Aug after 26.7 °C 48 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Aug 2017
After · 28 Aug 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 · 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 Concepcion fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 August 2017 and 21 August 2017: 2 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 3,152 hectares (31.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Concepcion (2,581 ha, 0.4 %); San Carlos (580 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.0 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 7, class Low.
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.