Corumbá fire, 17 July 2024 Corumbá, Ladário
The fire started on 17 July 2024 in Corumbá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,988 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 53th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). Number 134 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
- Burnt area
- 21,988ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 22days
- 17 Jul 2024 – 7 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 17 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 903
- in a single hotspot: 514 MW
- Danger at start
- 25
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 25.1GW
- 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 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.1 mm on 8 Aug.
This area had burned before
89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,635 ha in 2016, 4,570 ha in 2019, 12,800 ha in 2020, 9,299 ha in 2021, 284 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 19,571 ha that had burned before.
- 9,299 ha Corumbá fire, September 2021 44,147 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,250 ha Corumbá fire, September 2020 12,364 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,390 ha Corumbá fire, August 2019 4,217 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,155 ha Corumbá fire, August 2020 3,274 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,701 ha Corumbá fire, July 2020 3,130 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 11 ha Corumbá fire, October 2019 11,689 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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21,658 ha reached on 17 Jul0.3 %
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Ladário 21,522 inhabitants461 ha reached on 6 Aug1.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jul | 32.7 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 18 Jul | 34.5 °C | 25 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 19 Jul | 35.6 °C | 21 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 20 Jul | 35.6 °C | 19 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 21 Jul | 35.2 °C | 18 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 22 Jul | 33.5 °C | 23 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 23 Jul | 34.9 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 24 Jul | 35.2 °C | 21 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 25 Jul | 35.9 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Jul | 36.0 °C | 22 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 27 Jul | 36.8 °C | 19 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 28 Jul | 36.5 °C | 15 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 29 Jul | 30.2 °C | 40 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 30 Jul | 24.1 °C | 59 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 31 Jul | 34.9 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 1 Aug | 37.0 °C | 25 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 2 Aug | 37.2 °C | 23 % | 57 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 3 Aug | 36.6 °C | 23 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 4 Aug | 36.0 °C | 24 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 5 Aug | 36.6 °C | 25 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 6 Aug | 35.2 °C | 18 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 7 Aug | 36.4 °C | 24 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 8 Aug after | 24.7 °C | 76 % | 39 km/h | 5.1 mm | Very low 3 |
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 30 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 111 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 46: 3.1 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 · 903Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Corumbá fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 July 2024 and 7 August 2024: 22 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 21,988 hectares (219.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Corumbá (21,658 ha, 0.3 %); Ladário (461 ha, 1.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 58, 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.