Juara fire, 8 September 2022 Juara
The fire started on 8 September 2022 in Juara, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,965 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 1432th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 423 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.
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Suggestions: Juara · 2020Juara · 2019Juara · 2016Juara · 2021
- Burnt area
- 3,965ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 5days
- 8 Sept 2022 – 12 Sept 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 8 Sept
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 159
- in a single hotspot: 91 MW
- Danger at start
- 23
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 345MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 22 Sept.
This area had burned before
86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,645 ha in 2016, 119 ha in 2018, 2,754 ha in 2019, 2,820 ha in 2020, 199 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,427 ha that had burned before.
- 2,820 ha Juara fire, September 2020 5,475 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,754 ha Juara fire, August 2019 30,083 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,536 ha Juara fire, August 2016 7,262 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 199 ha Juara fire, July 2021 7,382 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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3,981 ha reached on 8 Sept0.2 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept | 33.2 °C | 45 % | 35 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 23 |
| 9 Sept | 34.0 °C | 41 % | 29 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 10 Sept | 33.8 °C | 32 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 11 Sept | 33.5 °C | 35 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 12 Sept | 33.0 °C | 43 % | 23 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 28 |
| 13 Sept after | 32.2 °C | 43 % | 26 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 30 |
| 14 Sept after | 34.4 °C | 38 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 15 Sept after | 31.4 °C | 46 % | 35 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 31 |
| 16 Sept after | 33.5 °C | 40 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 17 Sept after | 35.3 °C | 33 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 18 Sept after | 32.3 °C | 52 % | 32 km/h | 0.8 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 19 Sept after | 35.1 °C | 31 % | 23 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 28 |
| 20 Sept after | 33.3 °C | 43 % | 19 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 27 |
| 21 Sept after | 33.2 °C | 37 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 32 |
| 22 Sept after | 32.3 °C | 49 % | 31 km/h | 1.3 mm | Moderate 17 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 6 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 306 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 183: 12 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 159Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 30,083 haJuara13 August 2019 · 13 days · 9 km away
- 24,446 haJuara28 August 2024 · 10 days · 12 km away
- 15,489 haJuara18 August 2022 · 27 days · 18 km away
- 14,810 haNova Bandeirantes31 August 2022 · 13 days · 23 km away
- 11,993 haNova BandeirantesAugust 2016 · 11 days · 25 km away
- 10,201 haNova Bandeirantes6 September 2020 · 5 days · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Juara fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 September 2022 and 12 September 2022: 5 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 3,965 hectares (39.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Juara (3,981 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 159 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.