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Farimaké fire, October 2020 Farimaké

Out · last detection 1 Nov 2020, 13:21 UTC

The fire started on 31 October 2020 in Farimaké, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,331 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 106th largest in Mopti since 2016 (of 160 with a page). Number 39 in Mali in 2020, of 61.

Burnt area
2,331ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
31 Oct 2020 – 1 Nov 2020
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
31 Oct
2020
Heat detections
41
in a single hotspot: 101 MW
Energy released
929MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Nov 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 Oct1 Nov

How it evolved, day by day

311

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Farimaké where it started
    2,347 ha reached on 31 Oct
    0.6 %

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.

Before · 24 Oct 2020
After · 8 Nov 2020

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 · 41Every 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 Farimaké fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 31 October 2020 and 1 November 2020: 2 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 2,331 hectares (23.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Farimaké (2,347 ha, 0.6 %).
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mali (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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.