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Inékar fire, April 2023 Inékar, Andéramboukane

Out · last detection 20 Apr 2023, 13:49 UTC

The fire started on 20 April 2023 in Inékar, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,435 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 45th largest in Gao since 2016 (of 135 with a page). Number 11 in Mali in 2023, of 56.

Burnt area
3,435ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
20 Apr 2023 – 20 Apr 2023
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
20 Apr
2023
Heat detections
98
in a single hotspot: 87 MW
Danger at start
77
Very extreme · FWI index
Energy released
2.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Apr20 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

20

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

The weather it burned in

43°high
36km/h · peak gust
4%lowest humidity

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

  1. Inékar where it started
    3,049 ha reached on 20 Apr
    0.1 %
  2. Andéramboukane
    391 ha reached on 20 Apr
    0.1 %

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)
20 Apr 42.8 °C 4 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 77
21 Apr after 43.0 °C 6 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
22 Apr after 41.6 °C 4 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
23 Apr after 41.3 °C 3 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 83
24 Apr after 41.5 °C 6 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
25 Apr after 42.6 °C 4 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 75
26 Apr after 42.0 °C 6 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 79
27 Apr after 42.0 °C 7 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
28 Apr after 41.3 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
29 Apr after 40.3 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very extreme 71
30 Apr after 41.5 °C 14 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Apr 2023
After · 27 Apr 2023

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 · 98Every 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 Inékar fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 April 2023 and 20 April 2023: 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 3,435 hectares (34.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Inékar (3,049 ha, 0.1 %); Andéramboukane (391 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 42.8 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 77, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mali (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 ADM3 (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.