Konsotami fire, April 2024 Konsotami, Tarihoye
The fire started on 16 April 2024 in Konsotami, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,475 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 49th largest in Kindia since 2016 (of 242 with a page). Number 14 in Guinea in 2024, of 118.
- Burnt area
- 4,475ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 16 Apr 2024 – 23 Apr 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 16 Apr
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 210
- in a single hotspot: 322 MW
- Danger at start
- 43
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 8.8GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 721 ha in 2016, 1,385 ha in 2017, 2,075 ha in 2018, 519 ha in 2019, 627 ha in 2020, 88 ha in 2021, 202 ha in 2022, 94 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,565 ha that had burned before.
- 1,976 ha Konsotami fire, April 2018 10,531 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 721 ha Konsotami fire, April 2016 7,091 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 172 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2017 2,325 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 100 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2018 4,084 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 94 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2023 2,307 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 88 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2021 4,522 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9 ha Konsotami fire, April 2017 16,941 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Konsotami where it started4,020 ha reached on 13 Apr4.6 %
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484 ha reached on 17 Apr0.9 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr | 38.2 °C | 21 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 17 Apr | 37.6 °C | 26 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 18 Apr | 38.2 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 19 Apr | 36.8 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Apr | 34.7 °C | 39 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 38 |
| 21 Apr | 35.5 °C | 28 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 22 Apr | 34.9 °C | 27 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 23 Apr | 36.6 °C | 30 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 24 Apr after | 38.2 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Apr after | 37.4 °C | 25 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 26 Apr after | 37.1 °C | 27 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 27 Apr after | 36.4 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 28 Apr after | 36.6 °C | 28 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 29 Apr after | 35.9 °C | 36 % | 33 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 32 |
| 30 Apr after | 36.0 °C | 32 % | 27 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 33 |
| 1 May after | 38.2 °C | 29 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 2 May after | 37.8 °C | 26 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 3 May after | 37.5 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 19 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 69 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 57: 3.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 210Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 10,531 haKonsotami19 April 2018 · 8 days · 7 km away
- 16,941 haKonsotami12 April 2017 · 9 days · 17 km away
- 14,183 haKonsotami19 April 2018 · 14 days · 24 km away
- 9,116 haThionthian9 April 2016 · 11 days · 29 km away
- 9,219 haSogolon11 April 2017 · 10 days · 33 km away
- 12,262 haKoba13 April 2017 · 18 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Konsotami fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 16 April 2024 and 23 April 2024: 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 4,475 hectares (44.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Konsotami (4,020 ha, 4.6 %); Tarihoye (484 ha, 0.9 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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.