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Manfran fire, 29 January 2016 Manfran

Out · last detection 9 Feb 2016, 14:43 UTC

The fire started on 29 January 2016 in Manfran, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,141 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 23th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 12 in Guinea in 2016, of 172.

Burnt area
7,141ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
29 Jan 2016 – 9 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit
1
sub-prefectures
Started on
29 Jan
2016
Heat detections
242
in a single hotspot: 46 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
2.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Feb 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jan9 Feb

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

35°high
45km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Manfran where it started
    7,187 ha reached on 25 Jan
    8.3 %

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)
29 Jan 31.0 °C 14 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
30 Jan 31.6 °C 14 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Jan 31.6 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Feb 32.3 °C 15 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
2 Feb 30.7 °C 16 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
3 Feb 32.3 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
4 Feb 33.9 °C 15 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
5 Feb 33.9 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
6 Feb 34.9 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Feb 35.2 °C 13 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
8 Feb 34.4 °C 12 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
9 Feb 34.0 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Feb after 34.1 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Feb after 35.0 °C 11 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
12 Feb after 34.7 °C 9 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
13 Feb after 35.3 °C 9 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Feb after 34.6 °C 10 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
15 Feb after 34.7 °C 11 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
16 Feb after 34.6 °C 19 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Feb after 35.5 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
18 Feb after 35.4 °C 9 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
19 Feb after 35.0 °C 15 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jan 2016
After · 16 Feb 2016

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 · 242Every 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 Manfran fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 January 2016 and 9 February 2016: 12 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 7,141 hectares (71.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manfran (7,187 ha, 8.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (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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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 ADM3 (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.