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Daramagnaky fire, May 2018 Kolia, Daramagnaky

Out · last detection 8 May 2018, 13:45 UTC

The fire started on 5 May 2018 in Daramagnaky, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,762 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 133th largest in Kindia since 2016 (of 242 with a page). Number 49 in Guinea in 2018, of 107.

Burnt area
2,762ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
5 May 2018 – 8 May 2018
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
5 May
2018
Heat detections
76
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 May 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 May8 May

How it evolved, day by day

5678

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

38°high
38km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

34% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 769 ha in 2016, 160 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Kolia
    2,030 ha
    1.2 %
  2. Daramagnaky where it started
    751 ha
    0.9 %

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 May 35.6 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 May 37.2 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 May 36.9 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 May 38.3 °C 25 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 May after 35.0 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 May after 35.9 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 May after 36.2 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
12 May after 36.1 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 May after 37.3 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 May after 36.8 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 36
15 May after 33.7 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 May after 34.1 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 May after 35.5 °C 36 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 May after 34.7 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Apr 2018
After · 15 May 2018

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 · 0Every 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 Daramagnaky fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 May 2018 and 8 May 2018: 4 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 2,762 hectares (27.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kolia (2,030 ha, 1.2 %); Daramagnaky (751 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (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.

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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 ADM3 (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.