Burned area
satellite only3,022ha
Union of 2 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023 – 27 Aug 2023
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PE · Peru · –
Coronel Portillo fire, August 2023 Ucayali, Coronel Portillo
Out · last detection 27 Aug 2023, 18:27 UTC
The fire started on 1 August 2023 in Coronel Portillo, Peru, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,022 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 6th largest in Ucayali since 2016 (of 52 with a page). The largest in Peru in 2023, of 13.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only27days
1 Aug 2023 to 27 Aug 2023: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 27 Aug 2023, 18:27 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only1 Aug 2023
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only270
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 134 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023 – 27 Aug 2023
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only627MW
Total radiative power on 19 August 2023; hotspots that day: 31.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 19 Aug 2023
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model19.2FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 12.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model38.0°C · 33% RH
High of 38.0 °C and minimum humidity of 33% on 26 August 2023; gusts of 33 km/h on 25 August 2023.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 1 Aug 2023 – 27 Aug 2023
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logArea: 3,351 → 3,022 ha.
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logLast day with fire: 20 August 2023 → 27 August 2023.
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logStart date: 8 August 2023 → 1 August 2023.
Area logged each night
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/coronel-portillo-2023-08?v=2026-11-05A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire coronel-portillo-2023-08.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-01 | 3 | 17 | 35.6 | 21.9 | 38 | 7.4 | 18.4 | 0 | 19.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-02 | 6 | 33 | 36 | 22 | 34 | 9.7 | 17.3 | 0 | 17.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-03 | 18 | 258 | 36.1 | 22.5 | 32 | 10.2 | 20.5 | 0 | 18.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-04 | 7 | 6 | 34.4 | 22.8 | 48 | 6.4 | 17.6 | 0 | 17.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-05 | 18 | 76 | 35 | 23.2 | 47 | 7.5 | 17.3 | 0 | 20.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-06 | 2 | 7 | 35.1 | 24.6 | 47 | 7.1 | 16.6 | 0 | 19.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 8 | 254 | 37.1 | 24.1 | 37 | 9.7 | 19.8 | 0 | 20.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-08 | 4 | 43 | 36.2 | 25 | 44 | 11 | 19.8 | 0 | 18.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-09 | 15 | 133 | 35.8 | 24.8 | 44 | 8.1 | 20.9 | 0.3 | 21 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-10 | 14 | 506 | 36.3 | 23.6 | 46 | 9.9 | 22.7 | 0 | 22.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 26 | 467 | 37.2 | 24.2 | 40 | 11.2 | 25.9 | 0 | 27.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 24.3 | 59 | 10.5 | 23.8 | 8.5 | 19 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 27.6 | 22.5 | 78 | 8.4 | 23.8 | 23.1 | 0.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2023-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 28.1 | 21.6 | 71 | 8.9 | 23.4 | 7.6 | 0 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2023-08-15 | 9 | 37 | 32.4 | 22 | 53 | 6.2 | 22.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2023-08-16 | 12 | 50 | 34.8 | 22.5 | 43 | 7 | 14.8 | 0 | 5.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-08-17 | 8 | 91 | 36.1 | 23.3 | 38 | 8 | 18.7 | 0.1 | 10.5 | bajo | 1 |
| 2023-08-18 | 17 | 114 | 36.5 | 23.7 | 38 | 6.8 | 22.3 | 0 | 13.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-19 | 31 | 627 | 37 | 23.5 | 38 | 6.4 | 16.6 | 0 | 14 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-20 | 14 | 12 | 37.9 | 23.6 | 32 | 11.5 | 19.4 | 0 | 15.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-21 | 11 | 105 | 37.1 | 24.8 | 39 | 10.5 | 19.4 | 0.1 | 16.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-22 | 0 | 0 | 37.4 | 25.3 | 43 | 10.4 | 18.7 | 0.1 | 17.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 25.1 | 48 | 9.5 | 22.7 | 0.1 | 17 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-24 | 11 | 318 | 37.2 | 24.7 | 37 | 14.1 | 27 | 0 | 20.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-25 | 9 | 29 | 37.4 | 25.1 | 40 | 12.8 | 32.8 | 0 | 24.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-08-26 | 23 | 219 | 38 | 24.9 | 33 | 12.5 | 30.2 | 0 | 22.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-08-27 | 4 | 15 | 37.3 | 25.2 | 31 | 8.7 | 15.8 | 0 | 19.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2023-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 23.3 | 56 | 5.8 | 18.4 | 0.4 | 17 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 36.1 | 21.7 | 41 | 10.9 | 25.2 | 0 | 18.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 37.2 | 25.5 | 40 | 10.9 | 28.1 | 0.1 | 22.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 24.9 | 41 | 11.4 | 31 | 0 | 23.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 25.4 | 38 | 8.3 | 25.9 | 0.4 | 25 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-09-02 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 25.4 | 40 | 11 | 26.3 | 0 | 24 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 38.4 | 26.1 | 37 | 9.7 | 24.1 | 0.1 | 25.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-09-04 | 0 | 0 | 30.8 | 25 | 60 | 6.5 | 22.7 | 2.1 | 7.3 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 3,022ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 27days
- 1 Aug 2023 – 27 Aug 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- provinces
- Started on
- 1 Aug
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 270
- in a single hotspot: 134 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 155MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Aug27 Aug
27 Aug 2023
How it evolved, day by day
1 Aug
6 Aug
11 Aug
19 Aug
26 Aug
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
31%lowest humidity
It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 4 Sept.
This area had burned before
79% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 582 ha in 2019, 3,432 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,402 ha that had burned before.
- 1,274 ha Ucayali fire, September 2022 1,349 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,171 ha Ucayali fire, October 2022 1,372 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 889 ha Coronel Portillo fire, September 2022 3,365 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 99 ha Coronel Portillo fire, September 2022 1,020 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Ucayali 7,742 inhabitants1,752 ha0.1 %
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1,622 ha0.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Aug | 35.6 °C | 38 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 2 Aug | 36.0 °C | 34 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 3 Aug | 36.1 °C | 32 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 4 Aug | 34.4 °C | 48 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 5 Aug | 35.0 °C | 47 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 6 Aug | 35.1 °C | 47 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 7 Aug | 37.1 °C | 37 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 8 Aug | 36.2 °C | 44 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 9 Aug | 35.8 °C | 44 % | 21 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 10 Aug | 36.3 °C | 46 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 11 Aug | 37.2 °C | 40 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 12 Aug | 32.3 °C | 59 % | 24 km/h | 8.5 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 13 Aug | 27.6 °C | 78 % | 24 km/h | 23.1 mm | Very low 0 |
| 14 Aug | 28.1 °C | 71 % | 23 km/h | 7.6 mm | Very low 0 |
| 15 Aug | 32.4 °C | 53 % | 23 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 1 |
| 16 Aug | 34.8 °C | 43 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 17 Aug | 36.1 °C | 38 % | 19 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 18 Aug | 36.5 °C | 38 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 19 Aug | 37.0 °C | 38 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 20 Aug | 37.9 °C | 32 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 21 Aug | 37.1 °C | 39 % | 19 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 22 Aug | 37.4 °C | 43 % | 19 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 23 Aug | 35.7 °C | 48 % | 23 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 24 Aug | 37.2 °C | 37 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 25 Aug | 37.4 °C | 40 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 26 Aug | 38.0 °C | 33 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 27 Aug | 37.3 °C | 31 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 28 Aug after | 31.7 °C | 56 % | 18 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 29 Aug after | 36.1 °C | 41 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 30 Aug after | 37.2 °C | 40 % | 28 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 23 |
| 31 Aug after | 37.1 °C | 41 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 1 Sept after | 37.0 °C | 38 % | 26 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 25 |
| 2 Sept after | 37.0 °C | 40 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Sept after | 38.4 °C | 37 % | 24 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 25 |
| 4 Sept after | 30.8 °C | 60 % | 23 km/h | 2.1 mm | Low 7 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 19.2, a minimum humidity of 38% and 12 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 15.
FWI at the start
19.2
Minimum humidity
38 %
Days without rain
12
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Coronel Portillo fire, August 2023
3,022 ha
27 days
FWI 19.2
Min. humidity 38 %
Coronel Portillo fire, September 2024
1,530 ha
17 days
FWI 19.4
Min. humidity 39 %
27 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.9 mm on 27 Sept.
Puerto Inca fire, September 2024
1,236 ha
10 days
FWI 22.2
Min. humidity 38 %
70 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.8 mm on 27 Sept.
Coronel Portillo fire, August 2017
1,062 ha
15 days
FWI 18.6
Min. humidity 42 %
59 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 7.5 mm on 17 Aug.
Puerto Inca fire, September 2024
3,102 ha
17 days
FWI 20.7
Min. humidity 37 %
90 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.1 mm on 27 Sept.
Coronel Portillo fire, September 2024
1,432 ha
9 days
FWI 22.2
Min. humidity 40 %
38 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.9 mm on 27 Sept.
What happened to them
- 9 days
- median duration
- 1,573 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 8.1 mm
- rain at the end (median; 15 of 15 had it)
It was 1.9 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 27 days, against 9 days.
Only 2 of its 15 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 8.1 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
2.1 mmfirst rain
4 Sept8 days after it ended
33km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 27 Aug, and on 4 Sept 2.1 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 15 of 15, with a median of 8.1 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 25 Jul 2023
After · 3 Sept 2023
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 20 August 2023 the air beside the fire reached 41 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak41 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM1059 µg/m³
Optical depth0.57
WHO 15
6 Aug10 Aug14 Aug18 Aug22 Aug
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 270Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 3,365 haCoronel Portillo18 September 2022 · 18 days · 3 km away
- 14,316 haCoronel PortilloSeptember 2024 · 20 days · 4 km away
- 2,346 haUcayali7 September 2024 · 9 days · 9 km away
- 2,443 haCoronel Portillo11 September 2024 · 10 days · 12 km away
- 6,975 haCoronel PortilloSeptember 2024 · 23 days · 17 km away
- 1,871 haCoronel Portillo19 September 2022 · 11 days · 18 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Coronel Portillo fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 August 2023 to 27 August 2023 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 August 2023 to 20 August 2023.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,022 hectares (30.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ucayali (1,752 ha, 0.1 %); Coronel Portillo (1,622 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.0 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 33 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 Peru (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 15. Their median duration was 9 days and their median area 1,573 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 2 of its 15 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 8.1 mm.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 3 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Area: 3,351 → 3,022 ha.
- Last day with fire: 20 August 2023 → 27 August 2023.
- Start date: 8 August 2023 → 1 August 2023.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 8 August 2023 to 20 August 2023. 270 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.