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Coronel Portillo fire, August 2017 Coronel Portillo

Out · last detection 12 Aug 2017, 06:52 UTC

The fire started on 8 August 2017 in Coronel Portillo, Peru, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,062 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 51th largest in Ucayali since 2016 (of 58 with a page). Number 12 in Peru in 2017, of 14.

Burnt area
1,062ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
8 Aug 2017 – 12 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
1
provinces
Started on
8 Aug
2017
Heat detections
46
in a single hotspot: 35 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Energy released
263MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

12 Aug 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Aug12 Aug

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

37°high
35km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.5 mm on 17 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Coronel Portillo 135,161 inhabitants where it started
    1,069 ha reached on 2 Aug
    0.0 %

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)
8 Aug 36.3 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Aug 32.7 °C 60 % 22 km/h 2.9 mm Very low 4
10 Aug 35.4 °C 46 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 15
11 Aug 35.3 °C 46 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 20
12 Aug 36.6 °C 39 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
13 Aug after 34.9 °C 43 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
14 Aug after 35.0 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Aug after 36.2 °C 41 % 21 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
16 Aug after 36.2 °C 44 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Aug after 34.4 °C 50 % 26 km/h 7.5 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Aug 2017
After · 19 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 · 46Every 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 Coronel Portillo fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2017 and 12 August 2017: 5 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 1,062 hectares (10.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Coronel Portillo (1,069 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 35 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 Peru (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: 116 · 105

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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.