How long did the Koro fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 February 2019 to 15 February 2019 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 February 2019 to 14 February 2019.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,387 hectares (13.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Koro (1,395 ha, 1.4 %).

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

CI · Côte d’Ivoire · 2019-02-12 → 2019-02-15

Koro fire, February 2019 Koro

Out · last detection 15 Feb 2019, 13:38 UTC

The fire started on 12 February 2019 in Koro, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,387 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 62th largest in Woroba since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 67 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2019, of 146.

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Burnt area: 1,387ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 4days; 12 Feb 2019 – 15 Feb 2019
Municipalities hit: 1; sub-prefectures
Started on: 12 Feb; 2019
Heat detections: 46; in a single hotspot: 60 MW
Average daily power: 158MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Feb15 Feb

Play back 15 Feb 2019

How it evolved, day by day

12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb

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

This area had burned before

27% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 371 ha in 2016.

371 ha Koro fire, February 2016 1,414 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 0.9% of the area of London (14 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Koro where it started

1,395 ha reached on 12 Feb

1.4 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 5 Feb 2019

After · 22 Feb 2019

Before After

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 · 46Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Koro fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 February 2019 to 15 February 2019 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 February 2019 to 14 February 2019.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,387 hectares (13.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Koro (1,395 ha, 1.4 %).
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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: 180

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GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 12 February 2019 to 14 February 2019. 46 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

Where it burned