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Konduga fire, February 2019 Konduga, Damboa, Kaga

Out · last detection 12 Feb 2019, 12:54 UTC

The fire started on 12 February 2019 in Konduga, Nigeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,087 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 179th largest in Borno since 2016 (of 457 with a page). Number 35 in Nigeria in 2019, of 106.

Burnt area
3,087ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
12 Feb 2019 – 12 Feb 2019
Municipalities hit
3
local government areas
Started on
12 Feb
2019
Heat detections
79
in a single hotspot: 142 MW
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Feb12 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

12

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
32km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,885 ha in 2016, 1,077 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,619 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Konduga where it started
    2,581 ha reached on 12 Feb
    0.5 %
  2. Damboa
    354 ha reached on 12 Feb
    0.1 %
  3. Kaga
    169 ha reached on 12 Feb
    0.0 %

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)
12 Feb 31.9 °C 14 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
13 Feb after 31.9 °C 10 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
14 Feb after 30.8 °C 9 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
15 Feb after 29.9 °C 12 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
16 Feb after 30.0 °C 13 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
17 Feb after 31.9 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
18 Feb after 33.9 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Feb after 35.2 °C 10 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
20 Feb after 36.8 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
21 Feb after 36.2 °C 9 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
22 Feb after 38.4 °C 8 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Feb 2019
After · 19 Feb 2019

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 · 79Every 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 12 February 2019 and 12 February 2019: 1 day 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 3,087 hectares (30.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Konduga (2,581 ha, 0.5 %); Damboa (354 ha, 0.1 %); Kaga (169 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.9 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 32 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.