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Dimandougou fire, February 2019 Kouassi-Datékro, Dimandougou

Out · last detection 6 Mar 2019, 14:22 UTC

The fire started on 28 February 2019 in Dimandougou, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,063 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 83th largest in Zanzan since 2016 (of 774 with a page). Number 9 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2019, of 146.

Burnt area
4,063ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
28 Feb 2019 – 6 Mar 2019
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
28 Feb
2019
Heat detections
65
in a single hotspot: 87 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

6 Mar 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Feb6 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

282346

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
37km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.0 mm on 8 Mar.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,561 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Kouassi-Datékro
    2,245 ha reached on 2 Mar
    2.0 %
  2. Dimandougou where it started
    1,843 ha reached on 28 Feb
    3.1 %

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)
28 Feb 38.2 °C 10 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Mar 34.0 °C 23 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
2 Mar 36.1 °C 21 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Mar 37.7 °C 19 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
4 Mar 37.5 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Mar 37.4 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
6 Mar 37.3 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
7 Mar after 37.9 °C 34 % 39 km/h 0.2 mm High 36
8 Mar after 38.1 °C 38 % 32 km/h 7.0 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Feb 2019
After · 13 Mar 2019

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 · 65Every 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 Dimandougou fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 February 2019 to 6 March 2019 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 February 2019 to 4 March 2019.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,063 hectares (40.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kouassi-Datékro (2,245 ha, 2.0 %); Dimandougou (1,843 ha, 3.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 37 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 Côte d’Ivoire (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: 180

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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.