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Dolariya fire, March 2017 Dolariya, Hoshangabad, Itarsi

Out · last detection 9 Apr 2017, 20:59 UTC

The fire started on 28 March 2017 in Dolariya, India, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,505 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 46th largest in Madhya Pradesh since 2016 (of 60 with a page). Number 12 in India in 2017, of 27.

Burnt area
6,505ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
28 Mar 2017 – 8 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
3
subdistricts
Started on
28 Mar
2017
Heat detections
328
in a single hotspot: 73 MW
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Mar8 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

43°high
41km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 44 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

37% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,394 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Dolariya where it started
    4,877 ha reached on 28 Mar
    17 %
  2. Hoshangabad
    1,525 ha reached on 2 Apr
    7.2 %
  3. Itarsi
    135 ha reached on 3 Apr
    0.1 %

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 Mar 40.6 °C 17 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
29 Mar 40.9 °C 17 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Mar 41.1 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
31 Mar 40.5 °C 16 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
1 Apr 40.5 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
2 Apr 40.0 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
3 Apr 39.3 °C 17 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
4 Apr 38.6 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
5 Apr 38.3 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
6 Apr 39.4 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
7 Apr 37.1 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
8 Apr 37.3 °C 16 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
9 Apr after 38.3 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
10 Apr after 36.9 °C 10 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
11 Apr after 39.5 °C 12 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
12 Apr after 40.1 °C 12 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
13 Apr after 41.3 °C 11 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
14 Apr after 42.3 °C 10 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
15 Apr after 42.7 °C 12 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
16 Apr after 42.4 °C 13 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
17 Apr after 42.6 °C 13 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
18 Apr after 43.1 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
19 Apr after 42.1 °C 13 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
20 Apr after 41.8 °C 14 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 69
21 Apr after 41.9 °C 16 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
22 Apr after 39.6 °C 20 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
23 Apr after 38.3 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
24 Apr after 37.5 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
25 Apr after 37.8 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Mar 2017
After · 15 Apr 2017

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 · 328Every 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 Dolariya fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 March 2017 and 8 April 2017: 12 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 6,505 hectares (65.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Dolariya (4,877 ha, 17 %); Hoshangabad (1,525 ha, 7.2 %); Itarsi (135 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 42.7 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 58, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (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: 112

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.