Concepción fire, 21 June 2022 Concepción
The fire started on 21 June 2022 in Concepción, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,112 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 303th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 77 in Bolivia in 2022, of 222.
- Burnt area
- 7,112ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 14days
- 21 Jun 2022 – 4 Jul 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 21 Jun
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 819
- in a single hotspot: 53 MW
- Danger at start
- 20
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 5.6GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 12 Jul.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,753 ha in 2017, 11,482 ha in 2019, 932 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11,198 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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7,175 ha0.2 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jun | 28.5 °C | 34 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 15 Jun | 30.3 °C | 48 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 16 Jun | 30.2 °C | 51 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 17 Jun | 29.3 °C | 59 % | 49 km/h | 12.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 18 Jun | 21.7 °C | 57 % | 35 km/h | 2.6 mm | Very low 2 |
| 19 Jun | 28.9 °C | 54 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 20 Jun | 30.3 °C | 55 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 21 Jun | 30.7 °C | 49 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 22 Jun | 31.3 °C | 46 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 23 Jun | 31.2 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 24 Jun | 32.1 °C | 37 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 25 Jun | 24.2 °C | 54 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 26 Jun | 27.0 °C | 46 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 27 Jun | 30.2 °C | 41 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 28 Jun | 30.1 °C | 39 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 29 Jun | 28.0 °C | 45 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 30 Jun | 30.2 °C | 42 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 1 Jul | 30.6 °C | 39 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 2 Jul | 31.1 °C | 45 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 3 Jul | 32.1 °C | 43 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 4 Jul | 32.8 °C | 43 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 5 Jul after | 32.8 °C | 42 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 6 Jul after | 32.3 °C | 38 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 7 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 39 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 8 Jul after | 32.8 °C | 30 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 9 Jul after | 33.0 °C | 34 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 10 Jul after | 32.6 °C | 40 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 11 Jul after | 31.8 °C | 46 % | 56 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 12 Jul after | 24.3 °C | 49 % | 43 km/h | 1.8 mm | Moderate 13 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 819Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Concepción fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 June 2022 and 4 July 2022: 14 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 7,112 hectares (71.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Concepción (7,175 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bolivia (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 · 110
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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 (Public Domain). 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.