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La Nya Pendé fire, 20 January 2016 La Nya Pendé

Out · last detection 27 Jan 2016, 12:05 UTC

The fire started on 20 January 2016 in La Nya Pendé, Chad, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,956 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 21th largest in Logone Oriental since 2016 (of 51 with a page). Number 94 in Chad in 2016, of 220.

The power measured by the satellite is low (23.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
2,956ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
20 Jan 2016 – 26 Jan 2016
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
20 Jan
2016
Heat detections
99
in a single hotspot: 24 MW
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
608MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

27 Jan 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jan26 Jan

How it evolved, day by day

2021222324252627

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
32km/h · peak gust
11%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

  1. La Nya Pendé where it started
    2,974 ha reached on 18 Jan
    0.6 %

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)
20 Jan 33.6 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
21 Jan 33.5 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
22 Jan 34.0 °C 13 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
23 Jan 33.8 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
24 Jan 31.6 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
25 Jan 30.5 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
26 Jan 30.9 °C 16 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
27 Jan after 30.1 °C 16 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
28 Jan after 29.9 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
29 Jan after 30.8 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
30 Jan after 30.8 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
31 Jan after 31.9 °C 13 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
1 Feb after 33.6 °C 14 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Feb after 34.2 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
3 Feb after 36.5 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 Feb after 37.3 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Feb after 36.7 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Jan 2016
After · 2 Feb 2016

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 · 99Every 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 La Nya Pendé fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 January 2016 and 26 January 2016: 7 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 2,956 hectares (29.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered La Nya Pendé (2,974 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.0 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Chad (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 ADM2 (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.