Corumbá fire, 4 June 2024 Corumbá
The fire started on 4 June 2024 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 26 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 48,746 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 20th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 49 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
- Burnt area
- 48,746ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 26days
- 4 Jun 2024 – 29 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 4 Jun
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 3,152
- in a single hotspot: 336 MW
- Danger at start
- 23
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 47.4GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 8 Jul.
This area had burned before
96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,414 ha in 2017, 8,268 ha in 2019, 60,697 ha in 2020, 38,709 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 46,693 ha that had burned before.
- 38,709 ha Corumbá fire, September 2021 122,759 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 25,496 ha Puerto Quijarro fire, July 2020 56,339 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 24,740 ha Corumbá fire, March 2020 43,561 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,414 ha Corumbá fire, January 2017 5,404 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,772 ha Corumbá fire, July 2020 4,804 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 252 ha Corumbá fire, July 2020 41,691 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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31,655 ha reached on 4 Jun0.5 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jun | 31.5 °C | 39 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 5 Jun | 32.4 °C | 28 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 6 Jun | 33.3 °C | 27 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 7 Jun | 33.3 °C | 30 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 8 Jun | 33.6 °C | 29 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 9 Jun | 33.9 °C | 29 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 10 Jun | 34.0 °C | 29 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 11 Jun | 33.9 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 12 Jun | 33.8 °C | 25 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 13 Jun | 33.7 °C | 27 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 14 Jun | 34.1 °C | 32 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 15 Jun | 34.5 °C | 36 % | 43 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 41 |
| 16 Jun | 35.0 °C | 30 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 17 Jun | 34.4 °C | 30 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 18 Jun | 33.9 °C | 33 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Jun | 34.3 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 20 Jun | 34.0 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 21 Jun | 34.7 °C | 25 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 22 Jun | 34.7 °C | 30 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 23 Jun | 34.9 °C | 32 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 24 Jun | 34.7 °C | 34 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 25 Jun | 27.3 °C | 54 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 26 Jun | 24.7 °C | 52 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 27 Jun | 26.6 °C | 53 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 28 Jun | 32.9 °C | 31 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 29 Jun | 25.8 °C | 49 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 33 |
| 30 Jun after | 20.9 °C | 37 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 1 Jul after | 26.6 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 2 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 26 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 3 Jul after | 34.4 °C | 24 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 4 Jul after | 34.7 °C | 26 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 5 Jul after | 33.4 °C | 32 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 6 Jul after | 26.3 °C | 45 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 7 Jul after | 23.3 °C | 47 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 8 Jul after | 17.6 °C | 60 % | 36 km/h | 1.2 mm | Moderate 13 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 25 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 335 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 131: 8.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 3,152Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 43,561 haCorumbá2 March 2020 · 18 days · 2 km away
- 122,759 haCorumbá12 September 2021 · 25 days · 12 km away
- 41,691 haCorumbá14 July 2020 · 24 days · 17 km away
- 56,339 haPuerto QuijarroJuly 2020 · 14 days · 20 km away
- 58,626 haPuerto Quijarro12 August 2024 · 34 days · 36 km away
- 147,481 haCorumbá5 June 2024 · 32 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Corumbá fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 4 June 2024 and 29 June 2024: 26 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 48,746 hectares (487.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Corumbá (31,655 ha, 0.5 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.0 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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.