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Danlí fire, 6 April 2016 Danlí, Teupasenti

Out · last detection 22 Apr 2016, 18:39 UTC

The fire started on 6 April 2016 in Danlí, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,379 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 4th largest in El Paraíso since 2016 (of 63 with a page). Number 3 in Honduras in 2016, of 51.

Burnt area
5,379ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
16days
6 Apr 2016 – 21 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
6 Apr
2016
Heat detections
169
in a single hotspot: 148 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

22 Apr 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Apr21 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

36°high
49km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.8 mm on 26 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
    4,038 ha reached on 6 Apr
    1.6 %
  2. Teupasenti
    1,376 ha reached on 8 Apr
    2.0 %

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)
6 Apr 31.9 °C 31 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Apr 32.4 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
8 Apr 33.4 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Apr 32.8 °C 30 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
10 Apr 31.2 °C 32 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
11 Apr 29.7 °C 45 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm High 23
12 Apr 32.8 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm High 24
13 Apr 33.4 °C 32 % 32 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 21
14 Apr 33.6 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
15 Apr 34.1 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Apr 33.9 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
17 Apr 34.6 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Apr 32.3 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
19 Apr 31.0 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm High 29
20 Apr 33.5 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm High 27
21 Apr 34.5 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Apr after 33.5 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
23 Apr after 35.5 °C 24 % 48 km/h 0.3 mm High 38
24 Apr after 33.4 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm High 34
25 Apr after 35.8 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.5 mm High 33
26 Apr after 34.7 °C 31 % 32 km/h 15.8 mm Low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Mar 2016
After · 28 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 · 169Every 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 6 April 2016 and 21 April 2016: 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 5,379 hectares (53.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Danlí (4,038 ha, 1.6 %); Teupasenti (1,376 ha, 2.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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.