How long did the Gouiné fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 30 January 2017 to 9 February 2017 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 February 2017 to 9 February 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,092 hectares (60.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Gouiné (6,132 ha, 4.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class 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 · 2017-01-30 → 2017-02-09

Gouiné fire, 30 January 2017 Gouiné

Out · last detection 9 Feb 2017, 13:38 UTC

The fire started on 30 January 2017 in Gouiné, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,092 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 20th largest in Montagnes since 2016 (of 123 with a page). Number 9 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017, of 174.

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Burnt area: 6,092ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 11days; 30 Jan 2017 – 9 Feb 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; sub-prefectures
Started on: 30 Jan; 2017
Heat detections: 193; in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start: 30; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 107MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jan9 Feb

Play back 9 Feb 2017

How it evolved, day by day

30 Jan 1 Feb 4 Feb 6 Feb 8 Feb

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

The weather it burned in

35°high

34km/h · peak gust

11%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.0 mm on 11 Feb.

This area had burned before

19% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,152 ha in 2016.

1,152 ha Gouiné fire, January 2016 3,822 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 3.8% of the area of London (61 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

6,132 ha reached on 30 Jan

4.4 %

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.

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 Jan	34.4 °C	23 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
31 Jan	35.4 °C	28 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
1 Feb	34.7 °C	33 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
2 Feb	32.1 °C	39 %	32 km/h	1.5 mm	Moderate 14
3 Feb	34.3 °C	11 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
4 Feb	34.8 °C	14 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
5 Feb	34.7 °C	17 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
6 Feb	34.1 °C	16 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
7 Feb	34.1 °C	18 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
8 Feb	34.5 °C	17 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
9 Feb	33.9 °C	29 %	21 km/h	0.1 mm	High 33
10 Feb after	33.8 °C	32 %	33 km/h	0.3 mm	High 32
11 Feb after	33.7 °C	33 %	35 km/h	3.0 mm	Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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Before · 23 Jan 2017

After · 16 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 · 193Every 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 30 January 2017 to 9 February 2017 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 February 2017 to 9 February 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,092 hectares (60.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Gouiné (6,132 ha, 4.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 4 February 2017 to 9 February 2017. 193 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.

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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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