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Corumbá fire, 3 June 2024 Corumbá

Out · last detection 14 Jun 2024, 17:06 UTC

The fire started on 3 June 2024 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,286 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 193th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 455 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
7,286ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
3 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
3 Jun
2024
Heat detections
459
in a single hotspot: 135 MW
Danger at start
27
High · FWI index
Energy released
6.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

14 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Jun14 Jun

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

35°high
56km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 30 ha in 2017, 383 ha in 2019, 7,974 ha in 2020, 2,885 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,498 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Corumbá 96,268 inhabitants where it started
    7,308 ha reached on 4 Jun
    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)
3 Jun 33.9 °C 38 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
4 Jun 32.7 °C 34 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
5 Jun 33.3 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
6 Jun 34.2 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
7 Jun 34.8 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Jun 34.5 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Jun 34.3 °C 31 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Jun 34.7 °C 30 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
11 Jun 35.4 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Jun 35.2 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
13 Jun 34.8 °C 30 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Jun 34.4 °C 34 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Jun after 34.2 °C 37 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Jun after 35.3 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
17 Jun after 34.3 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
18 Jun after 34.8 °C 36 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Jun after 35.0 °C 34 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
20 Jun after 35.4 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jun after 35.2 °C 27 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Jun after 35.2 °C 32 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
23 Jun after 35.1 °C 35 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Jun after 35.0 °C 38 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 May 2024
After · 21 Jun 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 11 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 247 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 131: 8.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak247 µg/m³
Days over the guideline14 days
PM10353 µg/m³
Optical depth2.56
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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 · 459Every 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 3 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 12 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 7,286 hectares (72.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Corumbá (7,308 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, class Very 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.

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.