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Jaén fire, 14 November 2016 Jaén

Out · last detection 22 Nov 2016, 07:23 UTC

The fire started on 14 November 2016 in Jaén, Peru, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,506 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 7th largest in Cajamarca since 2016 (of 22 with a page). Number 18 in Peru in 2016, of 58.

Burnt area
1,506ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
14 Nov 2016 – 22 Nov 2016
Municipalities hit
1
provinces
Started on
14 Nov
2016
Heat detections
36
in a single hotspot: 43 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
298MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

22 Nov 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Nov22 Nov

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

25°high
49km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.6 mm on 23 Nov.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Jaén 10,852 inhabitants where it started
    1,516 ha reached on 12 Nov
    0.3 %

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)
14 Nov 21.8 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
15 Nov 20.9 °C 27 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
16 Nov 22.4 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
17 Nov 22.8 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
18 Nov 22.9 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
19 Nov 23.4 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
20 Nov 22.2 °C 8 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
21 Nov 23.3 °C 8 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
22 Nov 24.6 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
23 Nov after 22.7 °C 34 % 37 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Nov 2016
After · 29 Nov 2016

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 · 36Every 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 Jaén fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 November 2016 and 22 November 2016: 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 1,506 hectares (15.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jaén (1,516 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 24.6 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Peru (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.

Emergency number: 116 · 105

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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.