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Dueré fire, August 2024 Dueré, Santa Rita do Tocantins

Out · last detection 17 Sept 2024, 17:27 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2024 in Dueré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 35 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,284 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 206th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 310 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
10,284ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
35days
13 Aug 2024 – 16 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2024
Heat detections
929
in a single hotspot: 297 MW
Danger at start
51
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
10.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug16 Sept

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

41°high
49km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,874 ha in 2016, 8,483 ha in 2017, 33 ha in 2018, 6,559 ha in 2019, 5,575 ha in 2020, 771 ha in 2021, 7,377 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 9,705 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dueré 4,248 inhabitants where it started
    9,427 ha reached on 6 Aug
    2.7 %
  2. Santa Rita do Tocantins 2,219 inhabitants
    913 ha reached on 26 Aug
    0.3 %

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)
6 Aug 34.4 °C 25 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
7 Aug 35.1 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
8 Aug 35.7 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Aug 37.1 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Aug 35.5 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
11 Aug 36.3 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Aug 38.0 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
13 Aug 38.1 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
14 Aug 36.7 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
15 Aug 36.3 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
16 Aug 37.3 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
17 Aug 37.3 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
18 Aug 37.3 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
19 Aug 37.0 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
20 Aug 36.6 °C 19 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
21 Aug 37.5 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
22 Aug 37.8 °C 19 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Aug 37.3 °C 19 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
24 Aug 37.6 °C 16 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
25 Aug 38.0 °C 17 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
26 Aug 37.1 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
27 Aug 39.0 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
28 Aug 37.5 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
29 Aug 35.3 °C 23 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
30 Aug 36.0 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
31 Aug 36.6 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
1 Sept 37.7 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Sept 37.5 °C 16 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
3 Sept 38.6 °C 10 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
4 Sept 39.6 °C 10 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
5 Sept 39.2 °C 12 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
6 Sept 39.2 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
7 Sept 39.0 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
8 Sept 38.6 °C 15 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
9 Sept 37.9 °C 18 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
10 Sept 38.0 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
11 Sept 38.3 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
12 Sept 38.4 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
13 Sept 39.0 °C 15 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
14 Sept 39.0 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
15 Sept 39.4 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
16 Sept 40.0 °C 14 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
17 Sept after 41.4 °C 11 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
18 Sept after 40.3 °C 16 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
19 Sept after 39.0 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
20 Sept after 39.6 °C 13 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
21 Sept after 40.2 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
22 Sept after 40.2 °C 16 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Sept after 41.3 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
24 Sept after 39.1 °C 19 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
25 Sept after 36.6 °C 32 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
26 Sept after 38.2 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Sept after 39.3 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
28 Sept after 39.2 °C 23 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
29 Sept after 40.5 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
30 Sept after 39.9 °C 19 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
1 Oct after 38.3 °C 24 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
2 Oct after 38.9 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Oct after 41.2 °C 11 % 23 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 · 6 Aug 2024
After · 23 Sept 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 25 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 67 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 42: 2.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak67 µg/m³
Days over the guideline9 days
PM1097 µg/m³
Optical depth0.93
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 929Every 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 Dueré fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 13 August 2024 and 16 September 2024: 35 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 10,284 hectares (102.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dueré (9,427 ha, 2.7 %); Santa Rita do Tocantins (913 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 41.4 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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.