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Itatí fire, 13 January 2022 Itatí

Out · last detection 17 Jan 2022, 18:26 UTC

The fire started on 13 January 2022 in Itatí, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,635 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 182th largest in Corrientes since 2016 (of 203 with a page). Number 388 in Argentina in 2022, of 442.

Burnt area
1,635ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
13 Jan 2022 – 17 Jan 2022
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
13 Jan
2022
Heat detections
51
in a single hotspot: 71 MW
Danger at start
46
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
574MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jan 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jan17 Jan

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

42°high
68km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 25 Jan.

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 245 ha in 2019, 12 ha in 2020.

What happened to each town

  1. Itatí where it started
    1,639 ha reached on 13 Jan
    0.5 %

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)
13 Jan 41.5 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Jan 39.0 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
15 Jan 39.6 °C 28 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 Jan 41.8 °C 23 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
17 Jan 40.5 °C 28 % 68 km/h 0.3 mm Extreme 56
18 Jan after 39.1 °C 28 % 56 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48
19 Jan after 39.7 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Jan after 39.9 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 37
21 Jan after 40.3 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
22 Jan after 40.7 °C 26 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Jan after 40.9 °C 28 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
24 Jan after 40.5 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
25 Jan after 39.2 °C 34 % 34 km/h 1.3 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jan 2022
After · 24 Jan 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 · 51Every 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 13 January 2022 and 17 January 2022: 5 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 1,635 hectares (16.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Itatí (1,639 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 41.8 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 68 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 60, 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.