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Lizarda fire, 25 August 2022 Lizarda, Rio Sono

Out · last detection 2 Sept 2022, 17:16 UTC

The fire started on 25 August 2022 in Lizarda, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,958 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 605th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 298 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

Burnt area
4,958ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
25 Aug 2022 – 2 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
25 Aug
2022
Heat detections
151
in a single hotspot: 78 MW
Danger at start
59
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
1.7GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Sept 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Aug2 Sept

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
59km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,107 ha in 2017, 1,585 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,293 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Lizarda 2,999 inhabitants where it started
    4,710 ha reached on 25 Aug
    0.8 %
  2. Rio Sono 4,841 inhabitants
    279 ha reached on 27 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)
25 Aug 35.2 °C 25 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
26 Aug 35.8 °C 22 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
27 Aug 35.6 °C 20 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
28 Aug 35.9 °C 19 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
29 Aug 36.6 °C 16 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
30 Aug 36.4 °C 20 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
31 Aug 35.5 °C 20 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
1 Sept 34.5 °C 18 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
2 Sept 35.5 °C 19 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
3 Sept after 36.7 °C 18 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
4 Sept after 38.2 °C 17 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
5 Sept after 37.7 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
6 Sept after 37.1 °C 20 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74
7 Sept after 36.0 °C 19 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 70
8 Sept after 36.3 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
9 Sept after 37.1 °C 20 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
10 Sept after 38.5 °C 15 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
11 Sept after 39.0 °C 13 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
12 Sept after 38.5 °C 17 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
13 Sept after 38.7 °C 15 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
14 Sept after 38.8 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
15 Sept after 39.9 °C 13 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 Sept after 37.8 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Aug 2022
After · 9 Sept 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 29 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 181 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 92: 6.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak181 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10259 µg/m³
Optical depth0.89
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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 · 151Every 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 25 August 2022 and 2 September 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 4,958 hectares (49.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lizarda (4,710 ha, 0.8 %); Rio Sono (279 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 74, class Very 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.