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Lamaní fire, April 2020 Lamaní, Villa de San Antonio

Out · last detection 13 Apr 2020, 07:05 UTC

The fire started on 7 April 2020 in Lamaní, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,426 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 7th largest in Comayagua since 2016 (of 62 with a page). Number 53 in Honduras in 2020, of 174.

Burnt area
2,426ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
7 Apr 2020 – 13 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
7 Apr
2020
Heat detections
109
in a single hotspot: 49 MW
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
766MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Apr 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Apr13 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

37°high
48km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 25 Apr.

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 802 ha in 2018.

What happened to each town

  1. Lamaní where it started
    2,385 ha reached on 7 Apr
    7.7 %
  2. Villa de San Antonio
    56 ha
    0.2 %

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)
7 Apr 34.1 °C 26 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
8 Apr 34.6 °C 24 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Apr 35.3 °C 20 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Apr 37.3 °C 16 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
11 Apr 34.9 °C 16 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Apr 34.0 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Apr 33.9 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
14 Apr after 35.1 °C 20 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 38
15 Apr after 35.1 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.5 mm High 37
16 Apr after 34.8 °C 15 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
17 Apr after 33.1 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Apr after 34.6 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
19 Apr after 34.1 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Apr after 33.3 °C 35 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Apr after 34.0 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Apr after 33.4 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Apr after 33.8 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Apr after 34.7 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Apr after 33.9 °C 29 % 34 km/h 1.0 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Mar 2020
After · 20 Apr 2020

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 · 109Every 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 Lamaní fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 April 2020 and 13 April 2020: 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 2,426 hectares (24.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lamaní (2,385 ha, 7.7 %); Villa de San Antonio (56 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.3 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 48 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 Honduras (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: 911

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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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.