Douprou fire, May 2023 Douprou, Tougnifily
The fire started on 11 May 2023 in Douprou, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,236 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 177th largest in Boké since 2016 (of 237 with a page). Number 53 in Guinea in 2023, of 79.
- Burnt area
- 2,236ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 7days
- 11 May 2023 – 17 May 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 11 May
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 79
- in a single hotspot: 220 MW
- Energy released
- 2.3GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
45% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 834 ha in 2016, 333 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,003 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Douprou where it started1,210 ha reached on 11 May4.3 %
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1,040 ha reached on 11 May2.0 %
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.
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 · 79Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Douprou fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 May 2023 and 17 May 2023: 7 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 2,236 hectares (22.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Douprou (1,210 ha, 4.3 %); Tougnifily (1,040 ha, 2.0 %).
- 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.