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Lizarda fire, 4 August 2024 Lizarda, Rio Sono, Centenário

Out · last detection 28 Aug 2024, 17:03 UTC

The fire started on 4 August 2024 in Lizarda, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 23,543 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 46th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 126 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
23,543ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
24days
4 Aug 2024 – 27 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
4 Aug
2024
Heat detections
831
in a single hotspot: 187 MW
Danger at start
52
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
10.7GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Aug 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Aug27 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

39°high
55km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

53% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 592 ha in 2016, 813 ha in 2017, 9,198 ha in 2020, 6,719 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 12,408 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Lizarda 2,999 inhabitants where it started
    22,317 ha reached on 4 Aug
    3.9 %
  2. Rio Sono 4,841 inhabitants
    894 ha reached on 24 Aug
    0.1 %
  3. Centenário 2,131 inhabitants
    466 ha reached on 13 Aug
    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)
4 Aug 33.6 °C 24 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
5 Aug 34.5 °C 19 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
6 Aug 34.5 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
7 Aug 35.1 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
8 Aug 35.9 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
9 Aug 36.4 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
10 Aug 37.9 °C 20 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Aug 37.2 °C 21 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
12 Aug 38.0 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
13 Aug 36.5 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Aug 35.5 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Aug 35.5 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Aug 36.4 °C 22 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
17 Aug 35.6 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Aug 36.2 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Aug 35.8 °C 20 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
20 Aug 36.4 °C 20 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
21 Aug 37.1 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
22 Aug 37.8 °C 18 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
23 Aug 36.5 °C 18 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
24 Aug 36.3 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
25 Aug 37.5 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
26 Aug 38.2 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
27 Aug 38.6 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
28 Aug after 36.5 °C 12 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 69
29 Aug after 35.5 °C 21 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
30 Aug after 35.3 °C 22 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
31 Aug after 35.8 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
1 Sept after 36.3 °C 19 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
2 Sept after 36.9 °C 14 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
3 Sept after 37.2 °C 15 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
4 Sept after 39.1 °C 8 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
5 Sept after 38.4 °C 10 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
6 Sept after 38.2 °C 12 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
7 Sept after 38.1 °C 15 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
8 Sept after 37.9 °C 16 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
9 Sept after 37.0 °C 17 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
10 Sept after 37.1 °C 16 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
11 Sept after 37.8 °C 19 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
12 Sept after 37.6 °C 18 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Jul 2024
After · 3 Sept 2024

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 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 32 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak32 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1045 µg/m³
Optical depth0.54
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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 · 831Every 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 4 August 2024 and 27 August 2024: 24 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 23,543 hectares (235.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Lizarda (22,317 ha, 3.9 %); Rio Sono (894 ha, 0.1 %); Centenário (466 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.6 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 69, 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.