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Gouiné fire, 22 January 2016 Gouiné

Out · last detection 31 Jan 2016, 14:11 UTC

The fire started on 22 January 2016 in Gouiné, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,822 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 32th largest in Montagnes since 2016 (of 123 with a page). Number 30 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

The power measured by the satellite is low (17.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
3,822ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
22 Jan 2016 – 2 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit
1
sub-prefectures
Started on
22 Jan
2016
Heat detections
114
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
584MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

31 Jan 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jan2 Feb

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

34°high
38km/h · peak gust
10%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. Gouiné where it started
    3,847 ha reached on 22 Jan
    2.8 %

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)
22 Jan 32.9 °C 10 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Jan 33.9 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
24 Jan 33.5 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jan 31.6 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
26 Jan 32.2 °C 14 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
27 Jan 32.0 °C 14 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
28 Jan 32.0 °C 12 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
29 Jan 30.7 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jan 31.0 °C 15 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
31 Jan 31.9 °C 17 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Feb 32.7 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Feb 31.4 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
3 Feb after 32.5 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Feb after 32.9 °C 19 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
5 Feb after 32.8 °C 15 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
6 Feb after 34.2 °C 13 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
7 Feb after 34.0 °C 14 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
8 Feb after 33.1 °C 10 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 Feb after 33.5 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Feb after 33.8 °C 13 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
11 Feb after 34.1 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Feb after 33.8 °C 12 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jan 2016
After · 9 Feb 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 · 114Every 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 Gouiné fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 22 January 2016 to 2 February 2016 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 January 2016 to 31 January 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,822 hectares (38.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Gouiné (3,847 ha, 2.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.9 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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: 180

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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 ADM3 (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.