How long did the Kouassi-Datékro fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 January 2016 and 13 February 2016: 22 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 11,581 hectares (115.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kouassi-Datékro (8,673 ha, 7.6 %); Dimandougou (2,985 ha, 5.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.

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 · 2016-01-23 → 2016-02-13

Kouassi-Datékro fire, January 2016 Kouassi-Datékro, Dimandougou

Out · last detection 13 Feb 2016, 13:27 UTC

The fire started on 23 January 2016 in Kouassi-Datékro, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,581 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 20th largest in Zanzan since 2016 (of 774 with a page). Number 7 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

Burnt area: 11,581ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 22days; 23 Jan 2016 – 13 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit: 2; sub-prefectures
Started on: 23 Jan; 2016
Heat detections: 393; in a single hotspot: 101 MW
Danger at start: 45; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 5.0GW; sum of detected power

Play back 13 Feb 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jan13 Feb

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

38°high

35km/h · peak gust

8%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months 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

Kouassi-Datékro where it started

8,673 ha reached on 23 Jan

7.6 %
Dimandougou

2,985 ha reached on 23 Jan

5.1 %

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)
23 Jan	35.9 °C	11 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
24 Jan	34.2 °C	10 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
25 Jan	34.2 °C	13 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
26 Jan	32.6 °C	15 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
27 Jan	34.6 °C	13 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
28 Jan	33.4 °C	11 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
29 Jan	33.0 °C	14 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
30 Jan	34.4 °C	14 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
31 Jan	34.7 °C	17 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
1 Feb	35.2 °C	11 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
2 Feb	35.3 °C	12 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
3 Feb	35.5 °C	14 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
4 Feb	35.1 °C	20 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
5 Feb	35.3 °C	17 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
6 Feb	37.5 °C	13 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
7 Feb	36.3 °C	14 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
8 Feb	36.0 °C	14 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
9 Feb	36.5 °C	17 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
10 Feb	36.9 °C	11 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
11 Feb	36.9 °C	8 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
12 Feb	36.6 °C	16 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
13 Feb	35.4 °C	22 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
14 Feb after	34.4 °C	32 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
15 Feb after	36.2 °C	30 %	22 km/h	0.2 mm	High 37
16 Feb after	37.8 °C	24 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
17 Feb after	37.8 °C	30 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
18 Feb after	38.1 °C	25 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
19 Feb after	37.6 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
20 Feb after	39.2 °C	21 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
21 Feb after	38.7 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
22 Feb after	38.0 °C	33 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
23 Feb after	38.3 °C	28 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40

Before and after, from space

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Before · 16 Jan 2016

After · 20 Feb 2016

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 · 393Every 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 Kouassi-Datékro fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 January 2016 and 13 February 2016: 22 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 11,581 hectares (115.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kouassi-Datékro (8,673 ha, 7.6 %); Dimandougou (2,985 ha, 5.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
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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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.

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