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Hendijan fire, October 2017 Hendijan

Out · last detection 26 Dec 2017, 10:21 UTC

The fire started on 29 October 2017 in Hendijan, Iran, and satellites saw it burning for 59 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,219 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

It is the 7th largest in Khuzestan since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 5 in Iran in 2017, of 27.

Burnt area
2,219ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
59days
29 Oct 2017 – 26 Dec 2017
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
29 Oct
2017
Heat detections
883
in a single hotspot: 261 MW
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
25.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

26 Dec 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Oct26 Dec

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

36°high
63km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.7 mm on 2 Jan.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 137 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Hendijan where it started
    2,227 ha
    0.9 %

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)
29 Oct 35.5 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
30 Oct 34.5 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
31 Oct 33.4 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
1 Nov 34.6 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
2 Nov 33.3 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Nov 31.5 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
4 Nov 32.0 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
5 Nov 33.1 °C 20 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
6 Nov 33.0 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
7 Nov 34.7 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Nov 33.9 °C 21 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
9 Nov 30.4 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Nov 30.6 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Nov 29.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Nov 28.2 °C 16 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
13 Nov 28.5 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Nov 28.7 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
15 Nov 29.4 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Nov 28.9 °C 16 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Nov 28.1 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Nov 28.9 °C 19 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Nov 27.9 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
20 Nov 28.0 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Nov 24.3 °C 38 % 43 km/h 6.5 mm Moderate 12
22 Nov 22.4 °C 66 % 46 km/h 28.6 mm Very low 1
23 Nov 20.5 °C 50 % 33 km/h 7.4 mm Very low 1
24 Nov 21.6 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
25 Nov 20.3 °C 29 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
26 Nov 20.6 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
27 Nov 17.7 °C 73 % 26 km/h 2.9 mm Very low 1
28 Nov 22.1 °C 56 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
29 Nov 23.1 °C 47 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
30 Nov 23.5 °C 49 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
1 Dec 24.0 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
2 Dec 21.7 °C 47 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
3 Dec 24.0 °C 42 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
4 Dec 25.6 °C 28 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
5 Dec 24.8 °C 31 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
6 Dec 23.5 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
7 Dec 24.1 °C 43 % 60 km/h 0.7 mm High 26
8 Dec 16.8 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Dec 20.2 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
10 Dec 19.5 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
11 Dec 19.9 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
12 Dec 20.0 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
13 Dec 21.7 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
14 Dec 23.5 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
15 Dec 20.1 °C 51 % 63 km/h 14.7 mm Very low 4
16 Dec 21.7 °C 52 % 42 km/h 0.7 mm Low 6
17 Dec 22.6 °C 43 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
18 Dec 21.6 °C 42 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
19 Dec 21.2 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
20 Dec 23.8 °C 41 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
21 Dec 24.8 °C 44 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
22 Dec 25.6 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
23 Dec 25.7 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
24 Dec 27.5 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
25 Dec 27.2 °C 22 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Dec 20.2 °C 45 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
27 Dec after 27.4 °C 16 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Dec after 26.4 °C 27 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 Dec after 26.9 °C 21 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
30 Dec after 26.9 °C 15 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 Dec after 25.8 °C 16 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
1 Jan after 24.4 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
2 Jan after 20.1 °C 47 % 27 km/h 6.7 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Oct 2017
After · 2 Jan 2018

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 · 883Every 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 Hendijan fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 October 2017 and 26 December 2017: 59 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 2,219 hectares (22.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Hendijan (2,227 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 63 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (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: 125

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.