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Konduga fire, December 2016 Konduga

Out · last detection 13 Dec 2016, 11:46 UTC

The fire started on 9 December 2016 in Konduga, Nigeria, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,040 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 69th largest in Borno since 2016 (of 457 with a page). Number 21 in Nigeria in 2016, of 198.

Burnt area
5,040ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
9 Dec 2016 – 13 Dec 2016
Municipalities hit
1
local government areas
Started on
9 Dec
2016
Heat detections
138
in a single hotspot: 103 MW
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Dec 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Dec13 Dec

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
33km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 57 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. Konduga where it started
    5,070 ha reached on 8 Dec
    1.0 %

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)
9 Dec 36.6 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
10 Dec 33.7 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
11 Dec 33.5 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
12 Dec 34.3 °C 17 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
13 Dec 33.2 °C 16 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Dec after 32.7 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
15 Dec after 31.2 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 Dec after 31.8 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Dec after 33.3 °C 18 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Dec after 34.4 °C 16 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Dec after 33.6 °C 14 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Dec after 34.0 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
21 Dec after 33.7 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
22 Dec after 33.9 °C 16 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
23 Dec after 34.0 °C 15 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Dec 2016
After · 20 Dec 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 · 138Every 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 Konduga fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 December 2016 and 13 December 2016: 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 5,040 hectares (50.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Konduga (5,070 ha, 1.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Nigeria (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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.