How long did the Delami fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 January 2019 and 20 January 2019: 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 2,138 hectares (21.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Delami (2,150 ha, 0.5 %).

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Sudan (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

SD · Sudan · 2019-01-17 → 2019-01-20

Delami fire, January 2019 Delami

Out · last detection 20 Jan 2019, 11:45 UTC

The fire started on 17 January 2019 in Delami, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,138 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 383th largest in South Kordofan since 2016 (of 442 with a page). Number 108 in Sudan in 2019, of 132.

The power measured by the satellite is low (23.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 2,138ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 4days; 17 Jan 2019 – 20 Jan 2019
Municipalities hit: 1; localities
Started on: 17 Jan; 2019
Heat detections: 40; in a single hotspot: 23 MW
Energy released: 261MW; sum of detected power

Play back 20 Jan 2019

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Jan20 Jan

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.

This area had burned before

79% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,673 ha in 2016, 220 ha in 2017, 66 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,683 ha that had burned before.

1,673 ha Delami fire, February 2016 3,164 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Delami where it started

2,150 ha reached on 17 Jan

0.5 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 10 Jan 2019

After · 27 Jan 2019

Before After

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 · 40Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Delami fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 January 2019 and 20 January 2019: 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 2,138 hectares (21.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Delami (2,150 ha, 0.5 %).
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Sudan (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.

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned