How long did the Corumbá fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 June 2020 and 11 November 2020: 136 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 312,925 hectares (3,129.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 4 municipalities: Poconé (215,850 ha, 13 %); Corumbá (95,131 ha, 1.5 %); Cáceres (3,726 ha, 0.2 %); Barão de Melgaço (25 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Extreme.

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 · 2020-06-29 → 2020-11-11

Corumbá fire, 29 June 2020 Poconé, Corumbá, Cáceres

Out · last detection 11 Nov 2020, 16:48 UTC

The fire started on 29 June 2020 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 136 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 312,925 hectares from heat detections, spread across 4 municipalities.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

It is the largest fire in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 2 in Brazil in 2020, of 957.

Burnt area: 312,925ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 136days; 29 Jun 2020 – 11 Nov 2020
Municipalities hit: 4; municipalities
Started on: 29 Jun; 2020
Heat detections: 33,051; in a single hotspot: 1,395 MW
Danger at start: 17; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 513.3GW; sum of detected power

Play back 11 Nov 2020

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jun11 Nov

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

39°high

59km/h · peak gust

21%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.4 mm on 17 Nov.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,402 ha in 2016, 10,689 ha in 2017, 3,919 ha in 2018, 23,853 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 38,600 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Poconé 31,217 inhabitants

215,850 ha reached on 4 Jul

13 %
Corumbá 96,268 inhabitants where it started

95,131 ha reached on 22 Jun

1.5 %
Cáceres 89,681 inhabitants

3,726 ha reached on 23 Aug

0.2 %
Barão de Melgaço 15,246 inhabitants

25 ha reached on 4 Sept

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)
22 Jun	31.4 °C	45 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
23 Jun	30.0 °C	49 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
24 Jun	30.0 °C	43 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
25 Jun	30.6 °C	50 %	39 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
26 Jun	24.4 °C	69 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
27 Jun	22.4 °C	66 %	37 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 16
28 Jun	24.6 °C	63 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
29 Jun	29.1 °C	59 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
30 Jun	30.0 °C	56 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
1 Jul	24.8 °C	37 %	42 km/h	2.5 mm	Low 11
2 Jul	25.0 °C	40 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
3 Jul	24.7 °C	43 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
4 Jul	30.4 °C	46 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
5 Jul	31.4 °C	42 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
6 Jul	30.8 °C	53 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
7 Jul	31.1 °C	44 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
8 Jul	24.0 °C	58 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
9 Jul	23.6 °C	57 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 19
10 Jul	29.1 °C	54 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
11 Jul	30.3 °C	42 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
12 Jul	30.7 °C	51 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 21
13 Jul	31.5 °C	49 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
14 Jul	29.7 °C	57 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
15 Jul	31.3 °C	53 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
16 Jul	32.7 °C	33 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
17 Jul	32.7 °C	35 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
18 Jul	32.6 °C	34 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
19 Jul	32.1 °C	37 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
20 Jul	31.9 °C	35 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
21 Jul	31.2 °C	35 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
22 Jul	31.4 °C	33 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
23 Jul	32.1 °C	36 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
24 Jul	32.1 °C	40 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
25 Jul	23.6 °C	49 %	57 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
26 Jul	26.4 °C	52 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
27 Jul	31.0 °C	40 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
28 Jul	30.4 °C	46 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
29 Jul	23.8 °C	51 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
30 Jul	27.4 °C	46 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
31 Jul	31.2 °C	43 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
1 Aug	32.2 °C	34 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
2 Aug	31.4 °C	32 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
3 Aug	31.4 °C	33 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
4 Aug	31.5 °C	33 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
5 Aug	31.1 °C	29 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
6 Aug	31.4 °C	32 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
7 Aug	31.3 °C	31 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
8 Aug	32.2 °C	31 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
9 Aug	32.6 °C	30 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
10 Aug	32.8 °C	31 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
11 Aug	33.1 °C	34 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
12 Aug	28.8 °C	44 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
13 Aug	31.7 °C	46 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
14 Aug	34.8 °C	34 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
15 Aug	33.9 °C	36 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
16 Aug	31.2 °C	55 %	30 km/h	0.6 mm	High 25
17 Aug	33.0 °C	53 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
18 Aug	34.6 °C	38 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
19 Aug	34.0 °C	39 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
20 Aug	24.1 °C	64 %	59 km/h	5.3 mm	Low 8
21 Aug	13.9 °C	56 %	51 km/h	2.1 mm	Low 7
22 Aug	19.0 °C	47 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
23 Aug	27.7 °C	47 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
24 Aug	32.5 °C	43 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
25 Aug	33.3 °C	44 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
26 Aug	34.2 °C	42 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
27 Aug	35.2 °C	40 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
28 Aug	36.9 °C	23 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
29 Aug	37.0 °C	24 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
30 Aug	36.0 °C	25 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
31 Aug	32.6 °C	41 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
1 Sept	30.0 °C	44 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
2 Sept	28.4 °C	45 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
3 Sept	29.9 °C	45 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
4 Sept	34.0 °C	39 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
5 Sept	37.0 °C	26 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
6 Sept	35.7 °C	34 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
7 Sept	33.7 °C	36 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
8 Sept	30.6 °C	48 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
9 Sept	36.0 °C	35 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
10 Sept	35.9 °C	37 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
11 Sept	38.3 °C	21 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
12 Sept	36.2 °C	29 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
13 Sept	38.0 °C	23 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
14 Sept	35.6 °C	29 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
15 Sept	31.2 °C	43 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
16 Sept	34.9 °C	41 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
17 Sept	36.0 °C	32 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
18 Sept	35.9 °C	35 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
19 Sept	35.6 °C	38 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
20 Sept	31.4 °C	43 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
21 Sept	28.2 °C	44 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
22 Sept	27.4 °C	53 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
23 Sept	33.7 °C	45 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
24 Sept	36.5 °C	32 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
25 Sept	38.2 °C	28 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
26 Sept	36.5 °C	35 %	35 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 42
27 Sept	35.6 °C	34 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
28 Sept	33.3 °C	42 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
29 Sept	36.0 °C	42 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
30 Sept	37.9 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
1 Oct	38.2 °C	30 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
2 Oct	36.6 °C	37 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
3 Oct	38.4 °C	30 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
4 Oct	36.1 °C	38 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
5 Oct	38.3 °C	30 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
6 Oct	37.0 °C	38 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
7 Oct	37.6 °C	36 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
8 Oct	37.9 °C	32 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
9 Oct	38.8 °C	27 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
10 Oct	37.3 °C	33 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
11 Oct	36.4 °C	39 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
12 Oct	35.1 °C	41 %	26 km/h	0.1 mm	High 31
13 Oct	37.3 °C	37 %	38 km/h	0.6 mm	High 30
14 Oct	37.1 °C	33 %	37 km/h	0.1 mm	High 36
15 Oct	33.2 °C	47 %	40 km/h	1.8 mm	Moderate 18
16 Oct	31.9 °C	54 %	23 km/h	6.1 mm	Very low 5
17 Oct	36.0 °C	40 %	30 km/h	0.1 mm	High 22
18 Oct	34.9 °C	43 %	33 km/h	0.9 mm	High 23
19 Oct	34.6 °C	45 %	37 km/h	0.5 mm	High 25
20 Oct	32.7 °C	52 %	26 km/h	0.3 mm	High 22
21 Oct	33.9 °C	45 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
22 Oct	35.0 °C	44 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
23 Oct	31.7 °C	60 %	23 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 19
24 Oct	35.0 °C	44 %	35 km/h	1.0 mm	Moderate 20
25 Oct	34.5 °C	49 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
26 Oct	33.0 °C	53 %	45 km/h	2.4 mm	Moderate 11
27 Oct	30.9 °C	56 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
28 Oct	34.0 °C	48 %	38 km/h	4.4 mm	Low 7
29 Oct	29.9 °C	69 %	45 km/h	19.5 mm	Very low 0
30 Oct	30.3 °C	44 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
31 Oct	31.2 °C	44 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
1 Nov	32.9 °C	38 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
2 Nov	34.8 °C	29 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
3 Nov	34.8 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
4 Nov	35.7 °C	21 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
5 Nov	36.6 °C	21 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
6 Nov	37.9 °C	21 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
7 Nov	39.3 °C	25 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
8 Nov	38.3 °C	32 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
9 Nov	34.6 °C	40 %	41 km/h	0.4 mm	High 30
10 Nov	27.8 °C	64 %	30 km/h	2.0 mm	Low 6
11 Nov	34.5 °C	44 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
12 Nov after	32.1 °C	53 %	25 km/h	3.8 mm	Very low 4
13 Nov after	32.6 °C	53 %	23 km/h	2.0 mm	Very low 4
14 Nov after	33.8 °C	51 %	37 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 14
15 Nov after	34.2 °C	50 %	41 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 16
16 Nov after	32.9 °C	55 %	38 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 15
17 Nov after	31.4 °C	62 %	34 km/h	10.4 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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Before · 22 Jun 2020

After · 18 Nov 2020

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Detections table · 33,051Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Corumbá fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 June 2020 and 11 November 2020: 136 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 312,925 hectares (3,129.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 4 municipalities: Poconé (215,850 ha, 13 %); Corumbá (95,131 ha, 1.5 %); Cáceres (3,726 ha, 0.2 %); Barão de Melgaço (25 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Extreme.
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.

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