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Corumbá fire, 6 January 2017 Corumbá

Out · last detection 13 Jan 2017, 17:00 UTC

The fire started on 6 January 2017 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,404 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 281th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 417 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

Burnt area
5,404ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
6 Jan 2017 – 13 Jan 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Jan
2017
Heat detections
160
in a single hotspot: 75 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
2.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Jan 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jan13 Jan

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
46km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.6 mm on 17 Jan.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Corumbá 96,268 inhabitants where it started
    5,198 ha reached on 6 Jan
    0.1 %

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)
6 Jan 34.2 °C 60 % 41 km/h 7.6 mm Very low 0
7 Jan 35.9 °C 51 % 30 km/h 0.7 mm Very low 2
8 Jan 36.7 °C 44 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
9 Jan 36.4 °C 43 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
10 Jan 37.0 °C 39 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm Low 10
11 Jan 35.6 °C 43 % 24 km/h 0.5 mm Low 8
12 Jan 36.2 °C 45 % 21 km/h 6.3 mm Very low 1
13 Jan 33.8 °C 58 % 24 km/h 5.2 mm Very low 0
14 Jan after 35.1 °C 51 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 3
15 Jan after 35.4 °C 49 % 31 km/h 0.7 mm Low 5
16 Jan after 36.7 °C 44 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Low 8
17 Jan after 35.5 °C 55 % 26 km/h 13.6 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Dec 2016
After · 20 Jan 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 · 160Every 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 Corumbá fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 January 2017 and 13 January 2017: 8 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 5,404 hectares (54.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Corumbá (5,198 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 10, class Low.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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.