Idanre fire, February 2016 Idanre, Ovia South-West
The fire started on 8 February 2016 in Idanre, Nigeria, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,345 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 8th largest in Ondo since 2016 (of 23 with a page). Number 12 in Nigeria in 2016, of 198.
- Burnt area
- 6,345ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 8 Feb 2016 – 13 Feb 2016
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- local government areas
- Started on
- 8 Feb
- 2016
- Heat detections
- 434
- in a single hotspot: 41 MW
- Danger at start
- 39
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.2GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months 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
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Idanre where it started6,266 ha reached on 1 Feb3.2 %
-
120 ha reached on 1 Feb0.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Feb | 35.7 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 9 Feb | 35.8 °C | 19 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 10 Feb | 36.4 °C | 13 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 11 Feb | 36.1 °C | 12 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 12 Feb | 34.9 °C | 26 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 13 Feb | 35.7 °C | 27 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 14 Feb after | 34.5 °C | 37 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 15 Feb after | 35.4 °C | 38 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 16 Feb after | 34.9 °C | 39 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 17 Feb after | 35.8 °C | 38 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 18 Feb after | 36.4 °C | 43 % | 39 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 35 |
| 19 Feb after | 37.0 °C | 39 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 20 Feb after | 36.8 °C | 38 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 21 Feb after | 37.5 °C | 32 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 36 |
| 22 Feb after | 37.8 °C | 33 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 23 Feb after | 37.2 °C | 34 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 434Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 15,831 haIdanre16 January 2022 · 18 days · 3 km away
- 20,771 haOwo18 January 2020 · 29 days · 4 km away
- 28,739 haIdanre20 January 2016 · 15 days · 5 km away
- 11,751 haIdanreFebruary 2019 · 12 days · 5 km away
- 8,772 haIdanre14 February 2023 · 8 days · 7 km away
- 12,653 haOse14 February 2017 · 9 days · 14 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Idanre fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 February 2016 and 13 February 2016: 6 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 6,345 hectares (63.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Idanre (6,266 ha, 3.2 %); Ovia South-West (120 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.4 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Nigeria (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: 112
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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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.