How long did the Concepcion fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 September 2019 and 29 September 2019: 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 1,603 hectares (16.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Concepcion (1,608 ha, 0.2 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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.

PY · Paraguay · 2019-09-28 → 2019-09-29

Concepcion fire, 28 September 2019 Concepcion

Out · last detection 29 Sept 2019, 17:56 UTC

The fire started on 28 September 2019 in Concepcion, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,603 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 181th largest in Concepción since 2016 (of 195 with a page). Number 202 in Paraguay in 2019, of 231.

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Burnt area: 1,603ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 2days; 28 Sept 2019 – 29 Sept 2019
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 28 Sept; 2019
Heat detections: 53; in a single hotspot: 83 MW
Danger at start: 19; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 734MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Sept29 Sept

Play back 29 Sept 2019

How it evolved, day by day

28 Sept 29 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

38°high

33km/h · peak gust

26%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.1 mm on 5 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 1% of the area of London (16 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Concepcion where it started

1,608 ha reached on 28 Sept

0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area 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)
28 Sept	34.9 °C	28 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
29 Sept	37.8 °C	26 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
30 Sept after	38.0 °C	29 %	55 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
1 Oct after	38.8 °C	31 %	65 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
2 Oct after	31.8 °C	40 %	58 km/h	0.2 mm	High 27
3 Oct after	30.7 °C	50 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
4 Oct after	34.8 °C	42 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
5 Oct after	25.2 °C	65 %	38 km/h	15.1 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 21 Sept 2019

After · 6 Oct 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 · 53Every 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 Concepcion fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 September 2019 and 29 September 2019: 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 1,603 hectares (16.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Concepcion (1,608 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 53 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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.

Where it burned