How long did the Gouiné fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 January 2017 to 26 January 2017 (13 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 January 2017 to 19 January 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,269 hectares (62.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 4 municipalities: Gouiné (3,519 ha, 2.6 %); Guintéguéla (2,221 ha, 1.5 %); Sifié (382 ha, 0.9 %); Kamalo (186 ha, 0.5 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2017-01-14 → 2017-01-26

Gouiné fire, 14 January 2017 Gouiné, Guintéguéla, Sifié

Out · last detection 26 Jan 2017, 14:41 UTC

The fire started on 14 January 2017 in Gouiné, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,269 hectares from heat detections, spread across 4 municipalities.

It is the 19th largest in Montagnes since 2016 (of 123 with a page). Number 8 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017, of 174.

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Suggestions: Gouiné · 2016 Sifié · 2022 Gouiné · 2017 Gouiné · 2021

Burnt area: 6,269ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 13days; 14 Jan 2017 – 26 Jan 2017
Municipalities hit: 4; sub-prefectures
Started on: 14 Jan; 2017
Heat detections: 168; in a single hotspot: 180 MW
Danger at start: 42; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 161MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jan26 Jan

Play back 26 Jan 2017

How it evolved, day by day

14 Jan 16 Jan 18 Jan 20 Jan 23 Jan 26 Jan

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

28km/h · peak gust

8%lowest humidity

It had gone 50 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 2 Feb.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2016.

1 ha Gouiné fire, December 2016 1,056 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 4% of the area of London (63 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Gouiné where it started

3,519 ha reached on 14 Jan

2.6 %
Guintéguéla

2,221 ha reached on 17 Jan

1.5 %
Sifié

382 ha reached on 16 Jan

0.9 %
Kamalo

186 ha

0.5 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2015

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
14 Jan	35.2 °C	8 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
15 Jan	36.3 °C	11 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
16 Jan	37.0 °C	25 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
17 Jan	36.6 °C	33 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
18 Jan	36.1 °C	37 %	27 km/h	2.2 mm	Moderate 16
19 Jan	35.8 °C	40 %	25 km/h	0.9 mm	Moderate 19
20 Jan	36.6 °C	38 %	27 km/h	9.3 mm	Very low 4
21 Jan	36.8 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
22 Jan	36.8 °C	21 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
23 Jan	34.8 °C	16 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
24 Jan	35.8 °C	26 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
25 Jan	36.0 °C	23 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
26 Jan	36.1 °C	26 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
27 Jan after	36.5 °C	25 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
28 Jan after	36.5 °C	12 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
29 Jan after	36.4 °C	18 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
30 Jan after	36.9 °C	24 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
31 Jan after	37.8 °C	28 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
1 Feb after	37.4 °C	33 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
2 Feb after	34.8 °C	39 %	31 km/h	1.1 mm	High 22

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Jan 2017

After · 2 Feb 2017

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 · 168Every 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 14 January 2017 to 26 January 2017 (13 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 January 2017 to 19 January 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,269 hectares (62.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 4 municipalities: Gouiné (3,519 ha, 2.6 %); Guintéguéla (2,221 ha, 1.5 %); Sifié (382 ha, 0.9 %); Kamalo (186 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 January 2017 to 19 January 2017. 168 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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.

Where it burned