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Gaúcha do Norte fire, June 2019 Gaúcha do Norte

Out · last detection 25 Jun 2019, 17:58 UTC

The fire started on 23 June 2019 in Gaúcha do Norte, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,475 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1667th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 785 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

Burnt area
3,475ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
23 Jun 2019 – 25 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
23 Jun
2019
Heat detections
99
in a single hotspot: 239 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

25 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jun25 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2325

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
31km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 49 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,130 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Gaúcha do Norte 8,642 inhabitants where it started
    3,489 ha reached on 23 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
23 Jun 31.1 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
24 Jun 31.6 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Jun 32.8 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
26 Jun after 32.9 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
27 Jun after 33.1 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
28 Jun after 33.5 °C 35 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jun after 33.4 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
30 Jun after 32.9 °C 38 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
1 Jul after 32.9 °C 35 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
2 Jul after 33.3 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
3 Jul after 33.9 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
4 Jul after 34.5 °C 35 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
5 Jul after 34.2 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jun 2019
After · 2 Jul 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 · 99Every 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 Gaúcha do Norte fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 June 2019 and 25 June 2019: 3 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 3,475 hectares (34.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Gaúcha do Norte (3,489 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class High.
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.