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Goya fire, 30 July 2020 Goya

Out · last detection 8 Aug 2020, 18:06 UTC

The fire started on 30 July 2020 in Goya, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,499 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 97th largest in Corrientes since 2016 (of 203 with a page). Number 274 in Argentina in 2020, of 671.

Burnt area
2,499ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
30 Jul 2020 – 8 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
30 Jul
2020
Heat detections
162
in a single hotspot: 115 MW
Danger at start
15
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
2.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Aug 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jul8 Aug

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

33°high
46km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 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. Goya where it started
    2,504 ha reached on 29 Jul
    0.5 %

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)
30 Jul 18.3 °C 27 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
31 Jul 22.0 °C 53 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
1 Aug 29.9 °C 39 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
2 Aug 32.0 °C 30 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Aug 31.6 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
4 Aug 32.0 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Aug 33.4 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Aug 30.6 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
7 Aug 26.2 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm High 24
8 Aug 30.6 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Aug after 32.1 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
10 Aug after 28.6 °C 33 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Aug after 16.5 °C 22 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Aug after 16.3 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Aug after 20.1 °C 43 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
14 Aug after 19.8 °C 57 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
15 Aug after 19.6 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Aug after 21.7 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Aug after 24.4 °C 14 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Aug after 25.5 °C 24 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jul 2020
After · 15 Aug 2020

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 · 162Every 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 Goya fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 July 2020 and 8 August 2020: 10 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 2,499 hectares (25.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Goya (2,504 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.4 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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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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.