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Danlí fire, 5 April 2016 Danlí, Jacaleapa

Out · last detection 14 Apr 2016, 06:41 UTC

The fire started on 5 April 2016 in Danlí, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,235 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 46th largest in El Paraíso since 2016 (of 63 with a page). Number 27 in Honduras in 2016, of 51.

Burnt area
1,235ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
5 Apr 2016 – 14 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
5 Apr
2016
Heat detections
30
in a single hotspot: 35 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
168MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

14 Apr 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Apr14 Apr

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

34°high
54km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.9 mm on 17 Apr.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Danlí where it started
    816 ha reached on 5 Apr
    0.3 %
  2. Jacaleapa
    425 ha reached on 5 Apr
    3.8 %

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)
5 Apr 31.1 °C 37 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Apr 32.3 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Apr 32.9 °C 28 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Apr 33.5 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Apr 33.1 °C 27 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
10 Apr 31.4 °C 30 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Apr 30.5 °C 39 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 Apr 32.5 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.4 mm High 28
13 Apr 33.3 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.6 mm High 26
14 Apr 33.6 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
15 Apr after 34.6 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Apr after 34.4 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Apr after 34.4 °C 28 % 35 km/h 1.9 mm Moderate 21

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Mar 2016
After · 21 Apr 2016

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

Detections table · 30Every 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 Danlí fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 April 2016 and 14 April 2016: 10 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 1,235 hectares (12.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Danlí (816 ha, 0.3 %); Jacaleapa (425 ha, 3.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Honduras (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: 911

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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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.