How long did the Corumbá fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 October 2019 to 13 November 2019 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 October 2019 to 7 November 2019.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 92,935 hectares (929.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Miranda (41,291 ha, 7.5 %); Corumbá (40,543 ha, 0.6 %); Aquidauana (11,652 ha, 0.7 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 41.1 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class High.

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.

BR · Brazil · 2019-10-23 → 2019-11-13

Corumbá fire, 23 October 2019 Miranda, Corumbá, Aquidauana

Out · last detection 13 Nov 2019, 17:12 UTC

The fire started on 23 October 2019 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 92,935 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 9th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 4 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

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Suggestions: Aquidauana · 2017 Corumbá · 2021 Corumbá · 2021 Corumbá · 2023

Burnt area: 92,935ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 22days; 23 Oct 2019 – 13 Nov 2019
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 23 Oct; 2019
Heat detections: 4,099; in a single hotspot: 716 MW
Danger at start: 15; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 6.2GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Oct13 Nov

Play back 13 Nov 2019

How it evolved, day by day

23 Oct 27 Oct 30 Oct 2 Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 11 Nov

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

The weather it burned in

41°high

53km/h · peak gust

25%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.0 mm on 14 Nov.

This area had burned before

3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,028 ha in 2017.

3,028 ha Aquidauana fire, September 2017 6,540 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 59% of the area of London (929 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Miranda 25,536 inhabitants

41,291 ha reached on 27 Oct

7.5 %
Corumbá 96,268 inhabitants where it started

40,543 ha reached on 23 Oct

0.6 %
Aquidauana 46,803 inhabitants

11,652 ha reached on 25 Oct

0.7 %

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.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020

Built-up area2.0 ha

Residents≈ 50

Inside the perimeter there were about 2.0 hectares of built-up land and about 50 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
23 Oct	35.5 °C	32 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
24 Oct	38.5 °C	25 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 21
25 Oct	38.8 °C	27 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
26 Oct	39.0 °C	37 %	35 km/h	0.2 mm	High 25
27 Oct	38.8 °C	29 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
28 Oct	40.0 °C	29 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
29 Oct	39.2 °C	31 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
30 Oct	40.6 °C	28 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
31 Oct	41.1 °C	31 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
1 Nov	36.6 °C	34 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
2 Nov	38.4 °C	32 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
3 Nov	38.1 °C	33 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
4 Nov	39.0 °C	29 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
5 Nov	39.1 °C	31 %	49 km/h	1.7 mm	High 29
6 Nov	33.5 °C	49 %	31 km/h	4.5 mm	Very low 5
7 Nov	32.7 °C	60 %	24 km/h	15.8 mm	Very low 1
8 Nov	32.0 °C	53 %	26 km/h	12.4 mm	Very low 0
9 Nov	35.6 °C	41 %	30 km/h	0.5 mm	Low 6
10 Nov	29.2 °C	67 %	30 km/h	28.5 mm	Very low 0
11 Nov	33.2 °C	59 %	25 km/h	0.1 mm	Very low 1
12 Nov	34.3 °C	52 %	30 km/h	1.6 mm	Very low 3
13 Nov	32.2 °C	68 %	32 km/h	9.7 mm	Very low 0
14 Nov after	27.0 °C	81 %	30 km/h	15.0 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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Before · 16 Oct 2019

After · 20 Nov 2019

Before After

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 · 4,099Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Corumbá fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 October 2019 to 13 November 2019 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 October 2019 to 7 November 2019.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 92,935 hectares (929.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Miranda (41,291 ha, 7.5 %); Corumbá (40,543 ha, 0.6 %); Aquidauana (11,652 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 41.1 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class High.
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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 23 October 2019 to 7 November 2019. 4,099 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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.

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