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Corumbá fire, 10 June 2024 Porto Murtinho, Corumbá

Out · last detection 24 Jun 2024, 17:18 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2024 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,952 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 54th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 136 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
21,952ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
14days
10 Jun 2024 – 23 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
10 Jun
2024
Heat detections
749
in a single hotspot: 218 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
15.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun23 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

36°high
67km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.7 mm on 8 Jul.

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8,763 ha in 2016, 27 ha in 2017, 6,834 ha in 2019, 6,343 ha in 2020, 9,095 ha in 2021, 3,242 ha in 2022, 275 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 18,359 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Porto Murtinho 12,859 inhabitants
    17,120 ha reached on 10 Jun
    1.0 %
  2. Corumbá 96,268 inhabitants where it started
    4,129 ha reached on 7 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)
7 Jun 34.2 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
8 Jun 34.3 °C 32 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Jun 34.1 °C 32 % 61 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Jun 33.9 °C 31 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Jun 34.9 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
12 Jun 34.6 °C 27 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
13 Jun 34.8 °C 29 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
14 Jun 34.6 °C 33 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
15 Jun 33.6 °C 40 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Jun 33.4 °C 40 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
17 Jun 33.5 °C 39 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Jun 34.6 °C 34 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Jun 34.4 °C 37 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Jun 35.5 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
21 Jun 35.2 °C 25 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
22 Jun 34.9 °C 33 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Jun 35.3 °C 32 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Jun after 32.5 °C 44 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Jun after 24.2 °C 56 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
26 Jun after 19.7 °C 63 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
27 Jun after 24.8 °C 53 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun after 32.3 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
29 Jun after 24.8 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm High 36
30 Jun after 18.5 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
1 Jul after 27.4 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul after 33.6 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jul after 35.5 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Jul after 35.5 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
5 Jul after 31.2 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
6 Jul after 20.6 °C 57 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Jul after 18.1 °C 55 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
8 Jul after 13.4 °C 78 % 32 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Jun 2024
After · 30 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 16 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 130 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 57: 3.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak130 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM10185 µg/m³
Optical depth0.94
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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 · 749Every 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 10 June 2024 and 23 June 2024: 14 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 21,952 hectares (219.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Porto Murtinho (17,120 ha, 1.0 %); Corumbá (4,129 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, 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.