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Konsotami fire, 12 April 2017 Missira, Konsotami, Koba

Out · last detection 21 Apr 2017, 14:48 UTC

The fire started on 12 April 2017 in Konsotami, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 16,941 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Kindia since 2016 (of 242 with a page). Number 3 in Guinea in 2017, of 172.

Burnt area
16,941ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
12 Apr 2017 – 20 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
3
sub-prefectures
Started on
12 Apr
2017
Heat detections
992
in a single hotspot: 649 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
52.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Apr20 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

39°high
34km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

30% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,027 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Missira
    12,919 ha reached on 12 Apr
    11 %
  2. Konsotami where it started
    3,276 ha reached on 9 Apr
    3.7 %
  3. Koba
    849 ha reached on 16 Apr
    1.1 %

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 Apr 36.3 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Apr 37.2 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Apr 36.5 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Apr 36.5 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Apr 37.0 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Apr 37.1 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Apr 38.7 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
19 Apr 38.0 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Apr 36.0 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Apr after 36.8 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Apr after 35.9 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Apr after 35.7 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
24 Apr after 36.0 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
25 Apr after 37.2 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Apr after 38.0 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
27 Apr after 36.1 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
28 Apr after 35.6 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
29 Apr after 35.4 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.6 mm High 33
30 Apr after 36.8 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Apr 2017
After · 27 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 · 992Every 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 Konsotami fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 April 2017 and 20 April 2017: 9 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 16,941 hectares (169.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Missira (12,919 ha, 11 %); Konsotami (3,276 ha, 3.7 %); Koba (849 ha, 1.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.7 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (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.

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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 (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.