How long did the Gouiné fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 January 2016 to 21 February 2016 (30 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 January 2016 to 14 February 2016.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,848 hectares (88.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Gouiné (8,905 ha, 6.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.

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.

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2016-01-23 → 2016-02-21

Gouiné fire, 23 January 2016 Gouiné

Out · last detection 21 Feb 2016, 14:17 UTC

The fire started on 23 January 2016 in Gouiné, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 30 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,848 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 15th largest in Montagnes since 2016 (of 123 with a page). Number 12 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

Burnt area: 8,848ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 30days; 23 Jan 2016 – 21 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; sub-prefectures
Started on: 23 Jan; 2016
Heat detections: 548; in a single hotspot: 69 MW
Danger at start: 42; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 3.0GW; sum of detected power

Play back 21 Feb 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jan21 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

37°high

42km/h · peak gust

6%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.7 mm on 29 Feb.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Gouiné where it started

8,905 ha reached on 23 Jan

6.4 %

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 Jan	33.1 °C	9 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
24 Jan	32.5 °C	12 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
25 Jan	30.6 °C	14 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
26 Jan	31.6 °C	12 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
27 Jan	31.4 °C	12 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
28 Jan	31.5 °C	10 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
29 Jan	30.3 °C	12 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
30 Jan	30.3 °C	13 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
31 Jan	31.6 °C	15 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
1 Feb	32.3 °C	13 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
2 Feb	30.9 °C	13 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
3 Feb	31.8 °C	13 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
4 Feb	32.2 °C	18 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
5 Feb	32.2 °C	13 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
6 Feb	33.8 °C	11 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
7 Feb	33.3 °C	11 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
8 Feb	32.4 °C	8 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
9 Feb	33.2 °C	12 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
10 Feb	32.9 °C	11 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
11 Feb	33.5 °C	8 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
12 Feb	33.5 °C	7 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
13 Feb	33.5 °C	10 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
14 Feb	34.5 °C	22 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
15 Feb	35.1 °C	19 %	23 km/h	0.5 mm	Very high 41
16 Feb	33.4 °C	22 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
17 Feb	34.9 °C	21 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
18 Feb	35.1 °C	19 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
19 Feb	34.6 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
20 Feb	35.6 °C	21 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
21 Feb	36.7 °C	6 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
22 Feb after	34.1 °C	10 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
23 Feb after	34.6 °C	30 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
24 Feb after	32.9 °C	38 %	27 km/h	0.4 mm	High 33
25 Feb after	36.3 °C	22 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
26 Feb after	35.7 °C	24 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
27 Feb after	34.5 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
28 Feb after	35.9 °C	25 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
29 Feb after	34.1 °C	34 %	30 km/h	7.7 mm	Low 8

Before and after, from space

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Before · 16 Jan 2016

After · 28 Feb 2016

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.

Detections table · 548Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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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 23 January 2016 to 21 February 2016 (30 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 January 2016 to 14 February 2016.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,848 hectares (88.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Gouiné (8,905 ha, 6.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
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.

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