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Itatí fire, 22 January 2022 Itatí

Out · last detection 2 Feb 2022, 18:25 UTC

The fire started on 22 January 2022 in Itatí, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,494 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 22th largest in Corrientes since 2016 (of 203 with a page). Number 44 in Argentina in 2022, of 442.

Burnt area
7,494ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
22 Jan 2022 – 2 Feb 2022
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
22 Jan
2022
Heat detections
328
in a single hotspot: 156 MW
Danger at start
55
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
5.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Feb 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jan2 Feb

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

41°high
57km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 30 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.3 mm on 12 Feb.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,377 ha in 2020.

What happened to each town

  1. Itatí where it started
    7,517 ha reached on 22 Jan
    2.2 %

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.

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)
22 Jan 40.5 °C 26 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
23 Jan 40.9 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Jan 40.7 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
25 Jan 38.9 °C 34 % 32 km/h 1.4 mm High 32
26 Jan 37.2 °C 39 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
27 Jan 29.4 °C 57 % 57 km/h 0.5 mm High 32
28 Jan 32.8 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
29 Jan 33.7 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
30 Jan 36.1 °C 19 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
31 Jan 38.4 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
1 Feb 40.4 °C 16 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Feb 40.9 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
3 Feb after 34.6 °C 40 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
4 Feb after 35.7 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 36
5 Feb after 33.5 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 41
6 Feb after 31.1 °C 25 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
7 Feb after 31.7 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Feb after 34.3 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
9 Feb after 35.4 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Feb after 38.4 °C 15 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
11 Feb after 39.1 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
12 Feb after 31.5 °C 51 % 46 km/h 4.3 mm Moderate 13

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jan 2022
After · 9 Feb 2022

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 · 328Every 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 Itatí fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 January 2022 and 2 February 2022: 12 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 7,494 hectares (74.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Itatí (7,517 ha, 2.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.9 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 57 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.