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Lizarda fire, 8 August 2022 Lizarda, Rio Sono

Out · last detection 17 Aug 2022, 17:15 UTC

The fire started on 8 August 2022 in Lizarda, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,117 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1189th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 641 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

Burnt area
3,117ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
8 Aug 2022 – 16 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
8 Aug
2022
Heat detections
73
in a single hotspot: 37 MW
Danger at start
53
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
486MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Aug 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Aug16 Aug

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
54km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,552 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Lizarda 2,999 inhabitants where it started
    2,811 ha reached on 11 Aug
    0.5 %
  2. Rio Sono 4,841 inhabitants
    329 ha reached on 12 Aug
    0.0 %

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)
8 Aug 37.5 °C 17 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
9 Aug 37.2 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
10 Aug 37.1 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
11 Aug 36.8 °C 14 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Aug 38.2 °C 15 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
13 Aug 35.9 °C 26 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
14 Aug 35.9 °C 23 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
15 Aug 35.3 °C 20 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
16 Aug 35.5 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
17 Aug after 36.2 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
18 Aug after 36.3 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
19 Aug after 36.9 °C 14 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
20 Aug after 35.6 °C 18 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
21 Aug after 34.4 °C 21 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
22 Aug after 34.1 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
23 Aug after 34.7 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
24 Aug after 36.7 °C 20 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
25 Aug after 35.9 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
26 Aug after 36.0 °C 19 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
27 Aug after 36.2 °C 17 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
28 Aug after 36.2 °C 15 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
29 Aug after 37.3 °C 15 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
30 Aug after 37.0 °C 18 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
31 Aug after 36.1 °C 17 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
1 Sept after 34.9 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
2 Sept after 35.7 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Aug 2022
After · 23 Aug 2022

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 12 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak40 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1058 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 73Every 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 Lizarda fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2022 and 16 August 2022: 9 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 3,117 hectares (31.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lizarda (2,811 ha, 0.5 %); Rio Sono (329 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 68, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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.