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Ingapu fire, 24 February 2017 Ingapu

Out · last detection 5 Mar 2017, 18:35 UTC

The fire started on 24 February 2017 in Ingapu, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,423 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 3th largest in Ayeyarwady since 2016 (of 14 with a page). Number 19 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2017, of 118.

The power measured by the satellite is low (18.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
4,423ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
24 Feb 2017 – 4 Mar 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
24 Feb
2017
Heat detections
237
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

5 Mar 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Feb4 Mar

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
34km/h · peak gust
14%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. Ingapu where it started
    4,447 ha reached on 24 Feb
    2.6 %

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)
24 Feb 34.7 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Feb 35.1 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Feb 33.8 °C 14 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Feb 35.2 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
28 Feb 35.8 °C 23 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
1 Mar 36.4 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Mar 36.2 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Mar 36.3 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
4 Mar 36.0 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
5 Mar after 34.9 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
6 Mar after 35.6 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 Mar after 34.1 °C 31 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
8 Mar after 35.8 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
9 Mar after 34.3 °C 37 % 33 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
10 Mar after 34.6 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm High 34
11 Mar after 34.5 °C 37 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Mar after 33.6 °C 41 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Mar after 34.5 °C 38 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Mar after 35.5 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Feb 2017
After · 11 Mar 2017

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 · 237Every 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 Ingapu fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 24 February 2017 and 4 March 2017: 9 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 4,423 hectares (44.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ingapu (4,447 ha, 2.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.4 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Myanmar (Burma) (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 (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.