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Concepción fire, 10 January 2022 Concepción, Saladas

Out · last detection 19 Feb 2022, 18:07 UTC

The fire started on 10 January 2022 in Concepción, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 40 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,171 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 117th largest in Corrientes since 2016 (of 203 with a page). Number 243 in Argentina in 2022, of 442.

Burnt area
2,171ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
40days
10 Jan 2022 – 18 Feb 2022
Municipalities hit
2
departments
Started on
10 Jan
2022
Heat detections
650
in a single hotspot: 53 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
4.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Feb 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jan18 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

42°high
64km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.5 mm on 20 Feb.

This area had burned before

42% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 912 ha in 2017, 544 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 918 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Concepción where it started
    1,207 ha reached on 10 Jan
    0.2 %
  2. Saladas
    970 ha reached on 13 Jan
    0.5 %

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)
10 Jan 37.1 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Jan 38.4 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
12 Jan 40.4 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Jan 42.3 °C 10 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Jan 39.6 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 44
15 Jan 39.9 °C 26 % 52 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 49
16 Jan 41.7 °C 23 % 64 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 63
17 Jan 38.9 °C 30 % 64 km/h 1.2 mm Very high 40
18 Jan 37.9 °C 31 % 47 km/h 0.1 mm High 37
19 Jan 38.9 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
20 Jan 40.1 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.3 mm High 35
21 Jan 40.8 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
22 Jan 40.9 °C 24 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Jan 40.1 °C 30 % 47 km/h 2.1 mm High 28
24 Jan 39.6 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
25 Jan 37.5 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
26 Jan 35.3 °C 46 % 42 km/h 2.9 mm Moderate 14
27 Jan 28.1 °C 57 % 55 km/h 0.3 mm High 22
28 Jan 31.4 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jan 32.4 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jan 35.1 °C 25 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
31 Jan 37.3 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Feb 39.6 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
2 Feb 40.9 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
3 Feb 32.9 °C 34 % 36 km/h 6.8 mm Low 10
4 Feb 32.6 °C 45 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
5 Feb 32.5 °C 36 % 46 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
6 Feb 28.9 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Feb 30.1 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
8 Feb 32.3 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
9 Feb 34.0 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
10 Feb 37.2 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Feb 38.3 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
12 Feb 28.2 °C 60 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
13 Feb 29.2 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
14 Feb 33.1 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
15 Feb 36.7 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Feb 39.3 °C 18 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
17 Feb 36.9 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Feb 37.7 °C 21 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Feb after 37.7 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Feb after 34.3 °C 31 % 44 km/h 3.5 mm Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Jan 2022
After · 25 Feb 2022

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 · 650Every 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 Concepción fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 January 2022 and 18 February 2022: 40 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 2,171 hectares (21.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Concepción (1,207 ha, 0.2 %); Saladas (970 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 42.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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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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 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.