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Guintéguéla fire, 23 December 2016 Guintéguéla, Gouiné

Out · last detection 29 Dec 2016, 02:21 UTC

The fire started on 23 December 2016 in Guintéguéla, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,618 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 6th largest in Woroba since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 31 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

The power measured by the satellite is low (17.4 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
3,618ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
23 Dec 2016 – 29 Dec 2016
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
23 Dec
2016
Heat detections
69
in a single hotspot: 17 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
460MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

29 Dec 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Dec29 Dec

How it evolved, day by day

2326272829

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
31km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 28 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. Guintéguéla where it started
    2,717 ha reached on 23 Dec
    1.8 %
  2. Gouiné
    924 ha reached on 26 Dec
    0.7 %

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 Dec 35.3 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
24 Dec 34.7 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
25 Dec 34.8 °C 36 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Dec 34.7 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Dec 34.1 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Dec 33.0 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
29 Dec 34.3 °C 17 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
30 Dec after 34.6 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
31 Dec after 35.4 °C 16 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Jan after 35.4 °C 17 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
2 Jan after 35.5 °C 19 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jan after 33.9 °C 37 % 22 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
4 Jan after 34.3 °C 12 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Jan after 34.6 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
6 Jan after 35.6 °C 14 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 Jan after 35.2 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
8 Jan after 35.9 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Dec 2016
After · 5 Jan 2017

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 · 69Every 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 Guintéguéla fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 December 2016 to 29 December 2016 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 December 2016 to 28 December 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,618 hectares (36.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Guintéguéla (2,717 ha, 1.8 %); Gouiné (924 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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.