Burned area
satellite only6,284ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 7 Jul 2023 – 28 Jul 2023
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CD · Democratic Republic of the Congo · –
Katako-Kombe fire, 7 July 2023 Katako-Kombe
Out · last detection 28 Jul 2023, 12:45 UTC
The fire started on 7 July 2023 in Katako-Kombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,284 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 120th largest in Sankuru since 2016 (of 156 with a page). Number 35 in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2023, of 76.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only22days
7 Jul 2023 to 28 Jul 2023: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 28 Jul 2023, 12:45 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only7 Jul 2023
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 7 Jul 2023
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only357
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 229 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 7 Jul 2023 – 28 Jul 2023
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,192MW
Total radiative power on 15 July 2023; hotspots that day: 85.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 15 Jul 2023
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model32.2FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 6.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 7 Jul 2023, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model36.7°C · 17% RH
High of 36.7 °C and minimum humidity of 17% on 17 July 2023; gusts of 46 km/h on 18 July 2023.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 7 Jul 2023 – 28 Jul 2023
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 90people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 3.6 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 21 July 2023 → 28 July 2023.
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logStart date: 12 July 2023 → 7 July 2023.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 26 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 6,284 ha
- Dates
- 7 Jul 2023 – 28 Jul 2023
- Name
- Katako-Kombe
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/katako-kombe-2023-07-4?v=2026-10-26A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire katako-kombe-2023-07-4.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-07 | 1 | 4 | 34.2 | 20 | 22 | 16.6 | 40.3 | 0 | 32.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-08 | 22 | 244 | 34.5 | 21.2 | 21 | 15.4 | 38.9 | 0 | 32.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-09 | 20 | 216 | 32.8 | 20.2 | 34 | 9.3 | 16.6 | 0 | 26.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-10 | 0 | 0 | 33.4 | 22.3 | 40 | 9.4 | 25.2 | 0 | 24.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-11 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 22.6 | 39 | 8.2 | 29.5 | 0 | 23.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-12 | 0 | 0 | 34.5 | 22.4 | 24 | 13 | 31.7 | 0 | 31 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 11 | 92 | 34.2 | 24.7 | 28 | 14.7 | 36 | 0 | 33 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-14 | 41 | 389 | 35.7 | 23 | 21 | 15 | 37.4 | 0 | 36.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-15 | 85 | 1,192 | 36.2 | 23.3 | 21 | 15 | 37.1 | 0 | 37.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-16 | 26 | 403 | 36.4 | 23.2 | 21 | 12.6 | 33.5 | 0 | 36 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-17 | 67 | 1,183 | 36.7 | 23.9 | 17 | 19.2 | 45.4 | 0 | 46 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 11 | 53 | 36.6 | 25.2 | 16 | 19.8 | 46.1 | 0 | 48.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-19 | 6 | 142 | 35.6 | 23.3 | 18 | 9.2 | 25.6 | 0 | 38.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 6 | 77 | 34.6 | 21.7 | 26 | 8.4 | 20.9 | 0 | 35.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-21 | 8 | 51 | 34.4 | 23.2 | 30 | 8.1 | 23 | 0 | 32.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1 | 2 | 36.4 | 23.8 | 16 | 16.9 | 42.1 | 0 | 46.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 22.3 | 18 | 9.8 | 27.7 | 0 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-24 | 6 | 63 | 35.7 | 21.8 | 20 | 9 | 28.1 | 0 | 39.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 13 | 201 | 35.5 | 21.9 | 23 | 6.9 | 20.5 | 0 | 37.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-26 | 1 | 2 | 36.4 | 22.8 | 17 | 8.9 | 28.4 | 0 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-27 | 3 | 15 | 35.2 | 21.8 | 18 | 9.1 | 24.5 | 0 | 40.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-28 | 29 | 270 | 36.1 | 21.7 | 18 | 12.2 | 33.1 | 0 | 43.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2023-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 22.7 | 30 | 13.5 | 25.2 | 0 | 39.9 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 35.6 | 23.7 | 27 | 10.5 | 23 | 0 | 37.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-07-31 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 23.9 | 27 | 11.4 | 30.6 | 0 | 38.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-01 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 23.5 | 23 | 10.2 | 26.6 | 0 | 37.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-02 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 22.7 | 22 | 10.7 | 23 | 0 | 38.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 34.7 | 24.6 | 24 | 10.6 | 31.3 | 0 | 38.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 36.1 | 24 | 21 | 13.7 | 37.4 | 0.1 | 42 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-05 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 23.4 | 20 | 11.8 | 32 | 0 | 40.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-06 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 24.5 | 20 | 15.1 | 37.4 | 0 | 44.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-07 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 23.9 | 19 | 17.6 | 34.9 | 0 | 47.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 6,284ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 22days
- 7 Jul 2023 – 28 Jul 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- territories
- Started on
- 7 Jul
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 357
- in a single hotspot: 229 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 256MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
7 Jul28 Jul
28 Jul 2023
How it evolved, day by day
7 Jul
15 Jul
18 Jul
22 Jul
27 Jul
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
37°high
46km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity
It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,062 ha in 2016, 1,670 ha in 2017, 4,363 ha in 2018, 3,536 ha in 2019, 5,044 ha in 2020, 4,222 ha in 2021, 3,212 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,280 ha that had burned before.
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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Katako-Kombe where it started6,331 ha reached on 7 Jul0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area3.6 ha
Residents≈ 90
Inside the perimeter there were about 3.6 hectares of built-up land and about 90 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul | 34.2 °C | 22 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 8 Jul | 34.5 °C | 21 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 9 Jul | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 10 Jul | 33.4 °C | 40 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 11 Jul | 33.6 °C | 39 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 12 Jul | 34.5 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 13 Jul | 34.2 °C | 28 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 14 Jul | 35.7 °C | 21 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 15 Jul | 36.2 °C | 21 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 16 Jul | 36.4 °C | 21 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 17 Jul | 36.7 °C | 17 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 18 Jul | 36.6 °C | 16 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 19 Jul | 35.6 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 20 Jul | 34.6 °C | 26 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 21 Jul | 34.4 °C | 30 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 22 Jul | 36.4 °C | 16 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 23 Jul | 36.2 °C | 18 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 24 Jul | 35.7 °C | 20 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 25 Jul | 35.5 °C | 23 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 26 Jul | 36.4 °C | 17 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 27 Jul | 35.2 °C | 18 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 28 Jul | 36.1 °C | 18 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 29 Jul after | 34.9 °C | 30 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 30 Jul after | 35.6 °C | 27 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 31 Jul after | 35.0 °C | 27 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 1 Aug after | 35.7 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 2 Aug after | 35.0 °C | 22 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 3 Aug after | 34.7 °C | 24 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 4 Aug after | 36.1 °C | 21 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 42 |
| 5 Aug after | 36.0 °C | 20 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 6 Aug after | 36.6 °C | 20 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 7 Aug after | 36.0 °C | 19 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 32.2, a minimum humidity of 22% and 6 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
32.2
Minimum humidity
22 %
Days without rain
6
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Katako-Kombe fire, 7 July 2023
6,284 ha
22 days
FWI 32.2
Min. humidity 22 %
Lubefu fire, July 2018
6,432 ha
26 days
FWI 32.4
Min. humidity 24 %
84 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Lodja fire, July 2018
6,560 ha
20 days
FWI 32.4
Min. humidity 24 %
131 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 27 Jul.
Katako-Kombe fire, June 2020
6,461 ha
10 days
FWI 31.7
Min. humidity 25 %
76 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.5 mm on 28 Jun.
Lodja fire, July 2020
5,709 ha
8 days
FWI 33.5
Min. humidity 23 %
148 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 13 Jul.
Kasongo fire, June 2016
5,140 ha
7 days
FWI 32.1
Min. humidity 22 %
176 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 14 days
- median duration
- 6,322 ha
- median area
- 0 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 2.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 8 of 21 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (6,284 ha against a median of 6,322 ha) and lasted 22 days, against 14 days.
In 13 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.0 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
46km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 28 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 8 of 21, with a median of 2.0 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 30 Jun 2023
After · 4 Aug 2023
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 15 July 2023 the air beside the fire reached 293 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 131: 8.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak293 µg/m³
Days over the guideline15 days
PM10420 µg/m³
Optical depth2.29
WHO 15
10 Jul13 Jul16 Jul19 Jul22 Jul
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 · 357Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 8,054 haKatako-Kombe13 July 2023 · 14 days · 13 km away
- 43,790 haKatako-Kombe10 June 2026 · 34 days · 15 km away
- 9,986 haKatako-Kombe5 July 2023 · 25 days · 18 km away
- 7,402 haKatako-Kombe26 June 2016 · 27 days · 27 km away
- 17,991 haKatako-Kombe9 June 2026 · 36 days · 36 km away
- 8,668 haKatako-Kombe5 July 2023 · 24 days · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Katako-Kombe fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 7 July 2023 to 28 July 2023 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 July 2023 to 21 July 2023.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,284 hectares (62.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Katako-Kombe (6,331 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Democratic Republic of the Congo (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 21. Their median duration was 14 days and their median area 6,322 ha; 0 % went past 10,000 ha. In 13 of 21, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.0 mm.
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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 21 July 2023 → 28 July 2023.
- Start date: 12 July 2023 → 7 July 2023.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 12 July 2023 to 21 July 2023. 357 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.