How long did the Leonardo Bravo fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 April 2024 to 8 May 2024 (25 days). The perimeter dates it from 15 April 2024 to 4 May 2024. According to CONAFOR, the largest of the 2 recorded fires was detected on 15 April 2024 and declared extinguished on 15 May 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,799 hectares (38.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Chilpancingo de los Bravo (1,828 ha, 0.8 %); Eduardo Neri (1,454 ha, 1.2 %); Leonardo Bravo (538 ha, 0.7 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 26.4 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class High.

Where does this data come from?

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

MX · Mexico · 2024-04-14 → 2024-05-08

Leonardo Bravo fire, April 2024 Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Eduardo Neri, Leonardo Bravo

Out · last detection 5 May 2024, 19:49 UTC

The fire started on 14 April 2024 in Leonardo Bravo, Mexico, and satellites saw it burning for 25 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,799 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities. According to CONAFOR, the largest of the 2 recorded fires was detected on 15 April 2024 and declared extinguished on 15 May 2024.

It is the 169th largest in Guerrero since 2016 (of 612 with a page). Number 77 in Mexico in 2024, of 289.

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Burnt area: 3,799ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 25days; 14 Apr 2024 – 8 May 2024
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 14 Apr; 2024
Heat detections: 254; in a single hotspot: 37 MW
Danger at start: 32; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 44MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Apr8 May

Play back 5 May 2024

How it evolved, day by day

14 Apr 18 Apr 22 Apr 26 Apr 30 Apr 1 May 4 May

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

The weather it burned in

26°high

52km/h · peak gust

22%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,426 ha in 2017, 3,187 ha in 2019, 3,229 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,712 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.4% of the area of London (38 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

Chilpancingo de los Bravo 283,354 inhabitants

1,828 ha reached on 15 Apr

0.8 %
Eduardo Neri

1,454 ha reached on 21 Apr

1.2 %
Leonardo Bravo where it started

538 ha reached on 14 Apr

0.7 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area1.9 ha

Residents≈ 60

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.9 hectares of built-up land and about 60 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

Official record

Complex of 2 fires according to CONAFOR

According to CONAFOR, 2 fires started inside this perimeter on these dates, totalling 3,615 ha (the satellite measured 3,799 ha).

CONAFOR records each fire that started at a different time or place separately; the satellite sees a single burned area, so this page groups them together. The numbers on the map show where each one started.

When each one burned

1 15 ha 2 3,600 ha

12 Apr14 May

negligence cause unknown or not published

1 Eduardo Neri Jalapa / La Joya 12 April 2024 15 ha · extinguished on 14 April 2024 · cause: negligence
2 Chilpancingo de los Bravo Xocomanatlan / Omiltemi 15 April 2024 3,600 ha · extinguished on 15 May 2024 · cause: unknown

Total according to CONAFOR: 3,615 ha, 95 % of the 3,799 ha in the satellite perimeter.

CONAFOR (Comisión Nacional Forestal), estadística de incendios forestales en datos.gob.mx (CC BY 4.0). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

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)
14 Apr	25.8 °C	25 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
15 Apr	25.5 °C	32 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
16 Apr	25.9 °C	33 %	48 km/h	0.7 mm	High 24
17 Apr	26.4 °C	32 %	46 km/h	0.3 mm	High 26
18 Apr	25.8 °C	32 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
19 Apr	25.2 °C	32 %	46 km/h	0.1 mm	High 27
20 Apr	24.9 °C	29 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
21 Apr	26.2 °C	26 %	41 km/h	0.2 mm	High 29
22 Apr	25.3 °C	26 %	44 km/h	0.7 mm	High 26
23 Apr	23.9 °C	35 %	33 km/h	0.5 mm	High 26
24 Apr	25.5 °C	24 %	45 km/h	0.5 mm	High 30
25 Apr	25.5 °C	28 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
26 Apr	23.1 °C	35 %	38 km/h	0.1 mm	High 28
27 Apr	23.7 °C	29 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
28 Apr	23.8 °C	25 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
29 Apr	23.8 °C	22 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
30 Apr	25.1 °C	23 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
1 May	24.7 °C	23 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
2 May	25.7 °C	26 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
3 May	26.4 °C	27 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
4 May	26.2 °C	29 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
5 May	25.9 °C	33 %	45 km/h	0.4 mm	High 32
6 May	26.0 °C	34 %	44 km/h	3.6 mm	Low 6
7 May	26.4 °C	33 %	44 km/h	1.3 mm	Moderate 12
8 May	26.2 °C	26 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
9 May after	25.6 °C	27 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
10 May after	27.0 °C	23 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
11 May after	25.1 °C	24 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
12 May after	24.8 °C	25 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
13 May after	24.7 °C	29 %	43 km/h	0.2 mm	High 32
14 May after	26.1 °C	29 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
15 May after	26.3 °C	31 %	44 km/h	0.1 mm	High 31
16 May after	24.4 °C	38 %	42 km/h	0.2 mm	High 28
17 May after	24.2 °C	39 %	46 km/h	0.1 mm	High 28
18 May after	24.7 °C	40 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Apr 2024

After · 15 May 2024

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 58 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 43: 2.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak58 µg/m³

Days over the guideline22 days

PM1084 µg/m³

Optical depth1.32

WHO 15

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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 · 254Every 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 Leonardo Bravo fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 April 2024 to 8 May 2024 (25 days). The perimeter dates it from 15 April 2024 to 4 May 2024. According to CONAFOR, the largest of the 2 recorded fires was detected on 15 April 2024 and declared extinguished on 15 May 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,799 hectares (38.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Chilpancingo de los Bravo (1,828 ha, 0.8 %); Eduardo Neri (1,454 ha, 1.2 %); Leonardo Bravo (538 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 26.4 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mexico (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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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 15 April 2024 to 4 May 2024. 254 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
Compared with CONAFOR: 3,615 official ha against 3,799 ha of perimeter; they agree within 25%.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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 (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.

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