How long did the Gurupá fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 October 2024 and 13 November 2024: 23 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 7,935 hectares (79.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Gurupá (7,990 ha, 0.9 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class High.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

BR · Brazil · 2024-10-22 → 2024-11-13

Gurupá fire, October 2024 Gurupá

Out · last detection 14 Nov 2024, 05:02 UTC

The fire started on 22 October 2024 in Gurupá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,935 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 293th largest in Pará since 2016 (of 1096 with a page). Number 413 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Burnt area: 7,935ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 23days; 22 Oct 2024 – 13 Nov 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 22 Oct; 2024
Heat detections: 374; in a single hotspot: 58 MW
Danger at start: 23; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 200MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Oct13 Nov

Play back 14 Nov 2024

How it evolved, day by day

22 Oct 25 Oct 29 Oct 1 Nov 8 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov

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

38km/h · peak gust

39%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

48% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,380 ha in 2016, 963 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,791 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 5% of the area of London (79 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

Gurupá 31,786 inhabitants where it started

7,990 ha reached on 22 Oct

0.9 %

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)
17 Oct	34.7 °C	45 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
18 Oct	34.0 °C	49 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
19 Oct	34.9 °C	47 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
20 Oct	34.8 °C	51 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
21 Oct	34.2 °C	56 %	36 km/h	0.5 mm	High 22
22 Oct	33.9 °C	47 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
23 Oct	33.6 °C	55 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	High 23
24 Oct	34.0 °C	55 %	30 km/h	0.3 mm	High 23
25 Oct	33.7 °C	56 %	35 km/h	0.1 mm	High 23
26 Oct	33.8 °C	54 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	High 24
27 Oct	33.6 °C	47 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
28 Oct	33.6 °C	48 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
29 Oct	33.1 °C	57 %	27 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
30 Oct	33.1 °C	56 %	26 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
31 Oct	34.2 °C	52 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	High 24
1 Nov	34.1 °C	44 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
2 Nov	34.4 °C	48 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
3 Nov	33.2 °C	58 %	33 km/h	1.0 mm	Moderate 17
4 Nov	33.9 °C	49 %	38 km/h	0.1 mm	High 23
5 Nov	34.1 °C	51 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
6 Nov	34.5 °C	48 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
7 Nov	33.8 °C	57 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
8 Nov	34.7 °C	45 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
9 Nov	35.2 °C	39 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
10 Nov	34.5 °C	46 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
11 Nov	33.3 °C	57 %	30 km/h	0.4 mm	High 24
12 Nov	33.5 °C	56 %	26 km/h	3.4 mm	Low 6
13 Nov	33.6 °C	53 %	34 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 16
14 Nov after	33.9 °C	52 %	27 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 18
15 Nov after	31.8 °C	62 %	32 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 20
16 Nov after	33.4 °C	48 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
17 Nov after	33.2 °C	55 %	24 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 21
18 Nov after	32.4 °C	60 %	27 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 21
19 Nov after	33.5 °C	52 %	36 km/h	0.6 mm	Moderate 20
20 Nov after	34.7 °C	47 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
21 Nov after	34.0 °C	51 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
22 Nov after	34.3 °C	45 %	35 km/h	0.1 mm	High 25
23 Nov after	34.4 °C	49 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
24 Nov after	33.2 °C	54 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	High 25
25 Nov after	33.9 °C	54 %	30 km/h	0.4 mm	High 26
26 Nov after	34.1 °C	47 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
27 Nov after	34.2 °C	47 %	32 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
28 Nov after	34.6 °C	44 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
29 Nov after	34.9 °C	42 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
30 Nov after	34.1 °C	49 %	30 km/h	0.2 mm	High 27

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 15 Oct 2024

After · 20 Nov 2024

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 11 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 147 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 57: 3.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak147 µg/m³

Days over the guideline10 days

PM10212 µg/m³

Optical depth2.27

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 374Every 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 Gurupá fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 October 2024 and 13 November 2024: 23 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 7,935 hectares (79.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Gurupá (7,990 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193 · 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; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 374 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 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.

Where it burned