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Juara fire, 30 August 2020 Juara

Out · last detection 17 Sept 2020, 17:21 UTC

The fire started on 30 August 2020 in Juara, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 19 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,015 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 869th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 401 in Brazil in 2020, of 957.

Burnt area
6,015ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
19days
30 Aug 2020 – 17 Sept 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
30 Aug
2020
Heat detections
383
in a single hotspot: 224 MW
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
5.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Sept 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Aug17 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

39°high
40km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.3 mm on 20 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Juara 34,906 inhabitants where it started
    6,068 ha reached on 30 Aug
    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 35.7 °C 26 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
31 Aug 37.7 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Sept 36.7 °C 17 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
2 Sept 36.8 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
3 Sept 36.0 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
4 Sept 36.5 °C 19 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Sept 37.4 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
6 Sept 37.7 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
7 Sept 38.2 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
8 Sept 38.1 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
9 Sept 38.0 °C 18 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Sept 39.3 °C 13 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
11 Sept 36.8 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Sept 36.2 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
13 Sept 37.8 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
14 Sept 37.0 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
15 Sept 37.4 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
16 Sept 36.3 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
17 Sept 36.2 °C 22 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Sept after 35.6 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Sept after 36.5 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Sept after 32.2 °C 43 % 28 km/h 5.3 mm Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Aug 2020
After · 24 Sept 2020

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 · 383Every 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 Juara fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 August 2020 and 17 September 2020: 19 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 6,015 hectares (60.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Juara (6,068 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, 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.