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Jangada fire, 30 August 2017 Jangada, Várzea Grande

Out · last detection 8 Sept 2017, 17:39 UTC

The fire started on 30 August 2017 in Jangada, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,116 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 853th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 343 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

Burnt area
6,116ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
30 Aug 2017 – 8 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
30 Aug
2017
Heat detections
233
in a single hotspot: 96 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
2.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Sept 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Aug8 Sept

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

38°high
37km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days 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. Jangada 7,426 inhabitants where it started
    5,912 ha reached on 30 Aug
    4.5 %
  2. Várzea Grande 300,078 inhabitants
    243 ha
    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)
30 Aug 36.6 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
31 Aug 33.1 °C 47 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
1 Sept 36.9 °C 27 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
2 Sept 37.6 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Sept 37.3 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Sept 36.0 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 Sept 35.8 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
6 Sept 34.5 °C 32 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Sept 36.0 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Sept 37.2 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
9 Sept after 37.6 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Sept after 37.7 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Sept after 35.7 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
12 Sept after 35.7 °C 41 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Sept after 37.3 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
14 Sept after 36.8 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Sept after 37.8 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Sept after 28.3 °C 48 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Sept after 28.5 °C 50 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
18 Sept after 35.7 °C 35 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Aug 2017
After · 15 Sept 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 · 233Every 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 Jangada fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 August 2017 and 8 September 2017: 10 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 6,116 hectares (61.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Jangada (5,912 ha, 4.5 %); Várzea Grande (243 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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.