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Jore fire, 13 January 2016 Jore

Out · last detection 16 Jan 2016, 10:30 UTC

The fire started on 13 January 2016 in Jore, Ethiopia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,547 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 76th largest in Gambela since 2016 (of 611 with a page). Number 31 in Ethiopia in 2016, of 309.

Burnt area
7,547ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
13 Jan 2016 – 15 Jan 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Jan
2016
Heat detections
239
in a single hotspot: 86 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

16 Jan 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jan15 Jan

How it evolved, day by day

13141516

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

The weather it burned in

39°high
31km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 39 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. Jore where it started
    6,380 ha reached on 14 Jan
    1.9 %

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 38.1 °C 20 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Jan 38.9 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
15 Jan 37.3 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Jan after 37.5 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Jan after 39.2 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Jan after 39.4 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
19 Jan after 38.7 °C 10 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
20 Jan after 38.2 °C 13 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
21 Jan after 38.2 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
22 Jan after 37.5 °C 21 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
23 Jan after 39.7 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Jan after 38.7 °C 16 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Jan after 38.0 °C 13 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jan 2016
After · 22 Jan 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 · 239Every 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 Jore fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 13 January 2016 and 15 January 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 7,547 hectares (75.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jore (6,380 ha, 1.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ethiopia (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 ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.