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Kodur fire, April 2017 Kodur, Yerravaripalem

Out · last detection 18 Apr 2017, 19:52 UTC

The fire started on 11 April 2017 in Kodur, India, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,324 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 15th largest in Andhra Pradesh since 2016 (of 30 with a page). Number 8 in India in 2017, of 27.

Burnt area
7,324ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
11 Apr 2017 – 18 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
2
subdistricts
Started on
11 Apr
2017
Heat detections
269
in a single hotspot: 137 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Apr18 Apr

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

37°high
39km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 28 Apr.

This area had burned before

9% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 726 ha in 2016. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 667 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Kodur where it started
    6,090 ha reached on 11 Apr
    8.9 %
  2. Yerravaripalem
    1,276 ha reached on 13 Apr
    3.9 %

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)
7 Apr 34.5 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Apr 34.6 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
9 Apr 33.6 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Apr 34.3 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Apr 33.8 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
12 Apr 33.9 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Apr 33.5 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Apr 32.5 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
15 Apr 34.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Apr 36.3 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Apr 36.7 °C 25 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Apr 36.0 °C 27 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Apr after 35.8 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
20 Apr after 35.0 °C 33 % 32 km/h 2.1 mm Moderate 18
21 Apr after 34.6 °C 35 % 35 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 15
22 Apr after 35.2 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Apr after 35.8 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Apr after 36.0 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Apr after 35.3 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Apr after 34.9 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Apr after 35.8 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Apr after 35.0 °C 31 % 29 km/h 1.4 mm High 23

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Apr 2017
After · 25 Apr 2017

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 · 269Every 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 Kodur fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 April 2017 and 18 April 2017: 8 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 7,324 hectares (73.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kodur (6,090 ha, 8.9 %); Yerravaripalem (1,276 ha, 3.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (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: 112

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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.