How long did the Goris fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 August 2022 and 5 September 2022: 7 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 1,005 hectares (10.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.0 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Armenia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

AM · Armenia · 2022-08-30 → 2022-09-05

Goris fire, 30 August 2022 Armenia

Out · last measured on 5 Sept 2022

The fire started on 30 August 2022 in Goris, Armenia, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,005 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 10th largest in Syunik since 2016 (of 52 with a page). Number 9 in Armenia in 2022, of 35.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area: 1,005ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 7days; 30 Aug 2022 – 5 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit: 0; municipalities
Started on: 30 Aug; 2022
Danger at start: 22; High · FWI index

The weather it burned in

32°high

39km/h · peak gust

27%lowest humidity

It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.0 mm on 6 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

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)
30 Aug	28.0 °C	30 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
31 Aug	30.0 °C	30 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
1 Sept	31.2 °C	30 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
2 Sept	31.3 °C	28 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
3 Sept	30.8 °C	27 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
4 Sept	32.0 °C	27 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
5 Sept	27.5 °C	38 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
6 Sept after	18.7 °C	74 %	32 km/h	3.0 mm	Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 23 Aug 2022

After · 12 Sept 2022

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 5 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1027 µg/m³

Optical depth0.46

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Goris fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 August 2022 and 5 September 2022: 7 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 1,005 hectares (10.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.0 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Armenia (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: 911 · 112

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned