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Filadelfia fire, 3 June 2019 Filadelfia

Out · last detection 15 Jun 2019, 17:44 UTC

The fire started on 3 June 2019 in Filadelfia, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,344 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 23th largest in Boquerón since 2016 (of 291 with a page). Number 41 in Paraguay in 2019, of 231.

Burnt area
4,344ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
13days
3 Jun 2019 – 15 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
3 Jun
2019
Heat detections
480
in a single hotspot: 433 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
16.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

15 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Jun15 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

35°high
60km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 19 Jun.

This area had burned before

7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 303 ha in 2018.

What happened to each town

  1. Filadelfia where it started
    4,344 ha reached on 3 Jun
    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)
3 Jun 21.8 °C 71 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
4 Jun 24.3 °C 60 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
5 Jun 27.7 °C 53 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
6 Jun 30.9 °C 46 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
7 Jun 31.2 °C 47 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
8 Jun 25.3 °C 64 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
9 Jun 29.5 °C 57 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
10 Jun 31.2 °C 48 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
11 Jun 32.4 °C 47 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
12 Jun 34.3 °C 37 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
13 Jun 34.9 °C 40 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
14 Jun 32.9 °C 45 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
15 Jun 34.2 °C 39 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
16 Jun after 28.3 °C 51 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
17 Jun after 23.0 °C 65 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
18 Jun after 30.9 °C 47 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
19 Jun after 20.9 °C 81 % 36 km/h 2.2 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 May 2019
After · 22 Jun 2019

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 · 480Every 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 Filadelfia fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 3 June 2019 and 15 June 2019: 13 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 4,344 hectares (43.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Filadelfia (4,344 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.9 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (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: 132 · 911

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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 4.0 (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.