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Feshi fire, 2 June 2022 Feshi

Out · last detection 9 Jun 2022, 12:05 UTC

The fire started on 2 June 2022 in Feshi, Congo - Kinshasa, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,646 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 105th largest in Kwango since 2016 (of 219 with a page). Number 50 in Congo - Kinshasa in 2022, of 106.

Burnt area
6,646ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
2 Jun 2022 – 9 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit
1
territories
Started on
2 Jun
2022
Heat detections
155
in a single hotspot: 163 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Energy released
7.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Jun 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jun9 Jun

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

33°high
45km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

95% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,714 ha in 2016, 4,985 ha in 2017, 1,524 ha in 2018, 2,878 ha in 2019, 2,472 ha in 2020, 222 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,344 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Feshi where it started
    6,694 ha reached on 2 Jun
    0.4 %

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)
2 Jun 31.1 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jun 31.4 °C 25 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Jun 32.3 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Jun 32.6 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
6 Jun 31.5 °C 20 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Jun 30.7 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Jun 31.1 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
9 Jun 31.3 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Jun after 31.3 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Jun after 31.9 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Jun after 31.5 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
13 Jun after 32.0 °C 21 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Jun after 30.6 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jun after 32.8 °C 21 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jun after 31.7 °C 22 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
17 Jun after 32.3 °C 17 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Jun after 30.1 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Jun after 29.7 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 May 2022
After · 16 Jun 2022

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 · 155Every 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 Feshi fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 June 2022 and 9 June 2022: 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 6,646 hectares (66.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Feshi (6,694 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Congo - Kinshasa (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 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.