Corumbá fire, 21 June 2024 Corumbá, Miranda
The fire started on 21 June 2024 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 74,804 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 12th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 33 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
- Burnt area
- 74,804ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 16days
- 21 Jun 2024 – 6 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 21 Jun
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 2,965
- in a single hotspot: 490 MW
- Danger at start
- 49
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 80.4GW
- 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 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.9 mm on 8 Jul.
This area had burned before
87% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 938 ha in 2016, 7,398 ha in 2017, 41,527 ha in 2019, 44,027 ha in 2020, 18,207 ha in 2021, 376 ha in 2022, 935 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 65,374 ha that had burned before.
- 42,942 ha Corumbá fire, September 2020 98,626 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 17,544 ha Corumbá fire, October 2019 92,935 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 16,287 ha Corumbá fire, September 2019 35,314 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,369 ha Corumbá fire, September 2017 6,816 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,242 ha Corumbá fire, August 2021 6,813 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,596 ha Corumbá fire, August 2021 17,774 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,570 ha Corumbá fire, September 2021 5,309 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,782 ha Corumbá fire, August 2021 3,445 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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75,434 ha reached on 21 Jun1.2 %
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Miranda 25,536 inhabitants5 ha0.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun | 33.9 °C | 31 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 19 Jun | 34.3 °C | 31 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Jun | 34.6 °C | 27 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 21 Jun | 34.6 °C | 23 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 22 Jun | 34.7 °C | 29 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 23 Jun | 34.9 °C | 32 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 24 Jun | 35.2 °C | 31 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 25 Jun | 27.0 °C | 51 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 26 Jun | 25.6 °C | 47 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 27 Jun | 27.0 °C | 49 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 28 Jun | 33.5 °C | 28 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 29 Jun | 26.9 °C | 44 % | 42 km/h | 2.5 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 30 Jun | 20.6 °C | 34 % | 33 km/h | 0.6 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 1 Jul | 26.7 °C | 35 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Jul | 33.4 °C | 28 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 3 Jul | 34.9 °C | 19 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 4 Jul | 34.8 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 5 Jul | 34.1 °C | 29 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 6 Jul | 25.6 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 7 Jul after | 22.7 °C | 47 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 8 Jul after | 16.3 °C | 71 % | 36 km/h | 3.9 mm | Very low 4 |
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 346 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 115: 7.7 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 · 2,965Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 28,304 haCorumbá24 October 2019 · 15 days · 16 km away
- 98,626 haCorumbá24 September 2020 · 24 days · 17 km away
- 14,759 haCorumbá16 August 2024 · 7 days · 17 km away
- 35,314 haCorumbá7 September 2019 · 14 days · 19 km away
- 24,338 haCorumbá25 September 2021 · 11 days · 21 km away
- 17,774 haCorumbá6 August 2021 · 6 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Corumbá fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 June 2024 and 6 July 2024: 16 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 74,804 hectares (748.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Corumbá (75,434 ha, 1.2 %); Miranda (5 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 57, 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.
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.