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Dompu fire, 28 September 2019 Dompu

Out · last measured on 5 Oct 2019

The fire started on 28 September 2019 in Dompu, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,126 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 21th largest in West Nusa Tenggara since 2016 (of 29 with a page). Number 273 in Indonesia in 2019, of 418.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
2,126ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
28 Sept 2019 – 5 Oct 2019
Municipalities hit
1
regencies
Started on
28 Sept
2019
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
36km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

30% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 370 ha in 2017, 428 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 641 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dompu where it started
    2,140 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)
28 Sept 31.2 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Sept 30.4 °C 47 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
30 Sept 31.0 °C 48 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
1 Oct 31.1 °C 46 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Oct 31.4 °C 46 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Oct 31.3 °C 44 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Oct 31.7 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
5 Oct 30.3 °C 48 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
6 Oct after 30.5 °C 51 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Oct after 30.5 °C 50 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
8 Oct after 30.3 °C 51 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Oct after 30.3 °C 48 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
10 Oct after 30.9 °C 53 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
11 Oct after 31.2 °C 47 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
12 Oct after 30.9 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
13 Oct after 30.8 °C 52 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
14 Oct after 30.6 °C 52 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
15 Oct after 30.6 °C 49 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Sept 2019
After · 12 Oct 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.

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dompu fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 September 2019 and 5 October 2019: 8 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 2,126 hectares (21.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dompu (2,140 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.7 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Indonesia (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 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.