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Danlí fire, 15 April 2016 Danlí, Jacaleapa

Out · last detection 25 Apr 2016, 19:23 UTC

The fire started on 15 April 2016 in Danlí, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,024 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 23th largest in El Paraíso since 2016 (of 63 with a page). Number 11 in Honduras in 2016, of 51.

Burnt area
2,024ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
15 Apr 2016 – 24 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
15 Apr
2016
Heat detections
77
in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
378MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

25 Apr 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Apr24 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
41km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 17.7 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
    1,799 ha reached on 15 Apr
    0.7 %
  2. Jacaleapa
    238 ha reached on 15 Apr
    2.1 %

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)
15 Apr 34.7 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Apr 34.6 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Apr 34.6 °C 28 % 35 km/h 1.9 mm Moderate 21
18 Apr 32.4 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Apr 31.3 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Apr 33.6 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm High 29
21 Apr 34.4 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Apr 33.3 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Apr 35.7 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.9 mm High 32
24 Apr 33.6 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
25 Apr after 35.3 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.7 mm High 27
26 Apr after 32.4 °C 38 % 27 km/h 17.7 mm Very low 3

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Apr 2016
After · 1 May 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 · 77Every 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 15 April 2016 and 24 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 2,024 hectares (20.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Danlí (1,799 ha, 0.7 %); Jacaleapa (238 ha, 2.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.