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Impfondo fire, 1 September 2019 Impfondo

Out · last detection 1 Sept 2019, 13:22 UTC

The fire started on 1 September 2019 in Impfondo, Congo - Brazzaville, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,092 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 148th largest in Bouenza since 2016 (of 180 with a page). Number 46 in Congo - Brazzaville in 2019, of 59.

Burnt area
1,092ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
1 Sept 2019 – 1 Sept 2019
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Sept
2019
Heat detections
20
in a single hotspot: 102 MW
Energy released
806MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Sept1 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

1

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

This area had burned before

76% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 365 ha in 2016, 394 ha in 2017, 374 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 827 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Impfondo where it started
    1,100 ha reached on 29 Aug
    0.2 %

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 · 25 Aug 2019
After · 8 Sept 2019

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 · 20Every 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 Impfondo fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 September 2019 and 1 September 2019: 1 day 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 1,092 hectares (10.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Impfondo (1,100 ha, 0.2 %).
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Congo - Brazzaville (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.

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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 (Public Domain). 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.