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Jaén fire, 16 November 2016 Jaén

Out · last detection 18 Nov 2016, 06:58 UTC

The fire started on 16 November 2016 in Jaén, Peru, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,272 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 12th largest in Cajamarca since 2016 (of 22 with a page). Number 29 in Peru in 2016, of 58.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.1 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
1,272ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
16 Nov 2016 – 18 Nov 2016
Municipalities hit
1
provinces
Started on
16 Nov
2016
Heat detections
34
in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
172MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Nov 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Nov18 Nov

How it evolved, day by day

161718

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
37km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.3 mm on 25 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
    1,281 ha reached on 16 Nov
    0.2 %

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)
16 Nov 32.6 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
17 Nov 31.4 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
18 Nov 29.9 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 18
19 Nov after 30.1 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 12
20 Nov after 32.7 °C 7 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
21 Nov after 31.5 °C 9 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
22 Nov after 30.1 °C 30 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Nov after 29.4 °C 36 % 40 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 14
24 Nov after 30.2 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 16
25 Nov after 27.9 °C 42 % 32 km/h 5.3 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Nov 2016
After · 25 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 · 34Every 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 16 November 2016 and 18 November 2016: 3 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 1,272 hectares (12.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jaén (1,281 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, 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.