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General Taboada fire, 9 September 2016 General Taboada

Out · last detection 14 Sept 2016, 18:07 UTC

The fire started on 9 September 2016 in General Taboada, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,560 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 290th largest in Santiago del Estero since 2016 (of 320 with a page). Number 244 in Argentina in 2016, of 255.

Burnt area
1,560ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
9 Sept 2016 – 14 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
9 Sept
2016
Heat detections
71
in a single hotspot: 194 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
367MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

14 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Sept14 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

9 Sept 2016 · 16 MW · 2 10 Sept 2016 · 1,012 MW · 12 11 Sept 2016 · 929 MW · 20 12 Sept 2016 · 51 MW · 10 13 Sept 2016 · 117 MW · 7 14 Sept 2016 · 75 MW · 20
9 Sept 10 Sept 11 Sept 12 Sept 13 Sept 14 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
67km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 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. General Taboada where it started
    1,566 ha reached on 9 Sept
    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)
9 Sept 31.3 °C 12 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
10 Sept 33.9 °C 13 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Sept 36.7 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
12 Sept 38.5 °C 15 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 80
13 Sept 27.6 °C 15 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
14 Sept 26.4 °C 17 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Sept after 28.0 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Sept after 31.7 °C 18 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
17 Sept after 36.5 °C 18 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
18 Sept after 29.1 °C 24 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
19 Sept after 24.7 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Sept after 27.8 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
21 Sept after 31.3 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
22 Sept after 36.3 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
23 Sept after 25.7 °C 27 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
24 Sept after 17.7 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Sept 2016
After · 21 Sept 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 · 71Every 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 General Taboada fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 September 2016 and 14 September 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 1,560 hectares (15.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered General Taboada (1,566 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.5 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 80, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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.