Concepcion fire, 12 June 2024 Concepcion
The fire started on 12 June 2024 in Concepcion, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,424 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 85th largest in Concepción since 2016 (of 195 with a page). Number 91 in Paraguay in 2024, of 190.
- Burnt area
- 2,424ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 12 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 12 Jun
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 73
- in a single hotspot: 162 MW
- Danger at start
- 42
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 684MW
- 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 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 16 Jun.
This area had burned before
73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,074 ha in 2017, 934 ha in 2018, 512 ha in 2019, 709 ha in 2020, 554 ha in 2021, 656 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,758 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Concepcion where it started2,431 ha reached on 12 Jun0.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun | 34.2 °C | 22 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 13 Jun | 34.5 °C | 23 % | 67 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 14 Jun | 34.1 °C | 30 % | 70 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 15 Jun after | 33.4 °C | 39 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 16 Jun after | 30.4 °C | 47 % | 40 km/h | 1.2 mm | Moderate 16 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 16 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 59 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 37: 2.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 73Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 13,439 haConcepcion17 August 2021 · 9 days · 5 km away
- 18,830 haConcepcion6 September 2024 · 7 days · 20 km away
- 8,753 haSan Carlos15 August 2024 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 26,879 haSan Carlos12 August 2021 · 14 days · 29 km away
- 89,177 haSan Carlos16 August 2021 · 10 days · 32 km away
- 10,140 haConcepcionSeptember 2021 · 9 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Concepcion fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 3 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 2,424 hectares (24.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Concepcion (2,431 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.5 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 56, class Extreme.
- 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.