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Exaltación fire, 18 July 2016 Exaltación

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2016, 17:47 UTC

The fire started on 18 July 2016 in Exaltación, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,645 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 114th largest in Beni since 2016 (of 902 with a page). Number 23 in Bolivia in 2016, of 187.

Burnt area
11,645ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
18 Jul 2016 – 23 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
18 Jul
2016
Heat detections
402
in a single hotspot: 123 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Jul 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul23 Jul

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

36°high
38km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Exaltación 8,012 inhabitants where it started
    11,688 ha
    0.5 %

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)
17 Jul 27.2 °C 40 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Jul 30.8 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
19 Jul 29.9 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jul 29.5 °C 39 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Jul 31.5 °C 38 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
22 Jul 32.8 °C 39 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
23 Jul 33.4 °C 37 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
24 Jul after 34.8 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Jul after 35.3 °C 31 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
26 Jul after 35.5 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Jul after 32.6 °C 42 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Jul after 32.8 °C 41 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jul after 33.9 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Jul after 35.0 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
31 Jul after 35.6 °C 33 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
1 Aug after 36.3 °C 33 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
2 Aug after 34.9 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
3 Aug after 35.1 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
4 Aug after 35.6 °C 34 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Aug after 36.5 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Jul 2016
After · 30 Jul 2016

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 · 402Every 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 Exaltación fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 July 2016 and 23 July 2016: 6 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 11,645 hectares (116.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Exaltación (11,688 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bolivia (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: 119 · 110

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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 (Public Domain). 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.