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Guintéguéla fire, January 2020 Guintéguéla, Gouiné

Out · last detection 1 Feb 2020, 13:56 UTC

The fire started on 31 January 2020 in Guintéguéla, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,552 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 43th largest in Woroba since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 68 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2020, of 155.

The power measured by the satellite is low (19.9 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
1,552ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
31 Jan 2020 – 2 Feb 2020
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
31 Jan
2020
Heat detections
17
in a single hotspot: 20 MW
Energy released
111MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Feb 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 Jan2 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

311

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

This area had burned before

100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 468 ha in 2016, 700 ha in 2017, 1,520 ha in 2018, 770 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,549 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Guintéguéla where it started
    1,199 ha reached on 31 Jan
    0.8 %
  2. Gouiné
    363 ha reached on 1 Feb
    0.3 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jan 2020
After · 9 Feb 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 · 17Every 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 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 31 January 2020 to 1 February 2020.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,552 hectares (15.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Guintéguéla (1,199 ha, 0.8 %); Gouiné (363 ha, 0.3 %).
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.