How long did the Jauru fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 August 2024 and 9 September 2024: 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 12,946 hectares (129.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Jauru (6,504 ha, 4.8 %); Barra do Bugres (4,147 ha, 0.7 %); Vale de São Domingos (2,360 ha, 1.2 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 57, class Extreme.

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.

BR · Brazil · 2024-08-29 → 2024-09-09

Jauru fire, August 2024 Jauru, Barra do Bugres, Vale de São Domingos

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2024, 17:58 UTC

The fire started on 29 August 2024 in Jauru, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 12,946 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 334th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 228 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area: 12,946ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 12days; 29 Aug 2024 – 9 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 29 Aug; 2024
Heat detections: 498; in a single hotspot: 493 MW
Danger at start: 51; Extreme · FWI index
Energy released: 21.7GW; sum of detected power

Play back 10 Sept 2024

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Aug9 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

49km/h · peak gust

12%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 14 Sept.

This area had burned before

78% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 234 ha in 2016, 531 ha in 2018, 10,009 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 10,111 ha that had burned before.

1,547 ha Vale de São Domingos fire, August 2020 4,417 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Jauru 8,367 inhabitants where it started

6,504 ha reached on 29 Aug

4.8 %
Barra do Bugres

4,147 ha reached on 1 Sept

0.7 %
Vale de São Domingos 2,904 inhabitants

2,360 ha reached on 31 Aug

1.2 %

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)
29 Aug	36.6 °C	18 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
30 Aug	35.4 °C	19 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
31 Aug	35.4 °C	21 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
1 Sept	31.1 °C	31 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
2 Sept	34.7 °C	17 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
3 Sept	36.6 °C	16 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
4 Sept	34.9 °C	28 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
5 Sept	28.4 °C	38 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
6 Sept	35.1 °C	19 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
7 Sept	36.9 °C	12 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
8 Sept	37.0 °C	13 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
9 Sept	37.7 °C	15 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
10 Sept after	37.3 °C	15 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
11 Sept after	36.0 °C	22 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
12 Sept after	35.6 °C	25 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
13 Sept after	36.9 °C	23 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
14 Sept after	33.1 °C	38 %	35 km/h	1.4 mm	High 25

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 22 Aug 2024

After · 16 Sept 2024

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 4 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 157 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 123: 8.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak157 µg/m³

Days over the guideline17 days

PM10225 µg/m³

Optical depth4.56

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 498Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jauru fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 August 2024 and 9 September 2024: 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 12,946 hectares (129.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Jauru (6,504 ha, 4.8 %); Barra do Bugres (4,147 ha, 0.7 %); Vale de São Domingos (2,360 ha, 1.2 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 57, class Extreme.
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.

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