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Manfran fire, 7 February 2019 Manfran

Out · last detection 14 Feb 2019, 13:57 UTC

The fire started on 7 February 2019 in Manfran, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,103 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 188th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 101 in Guinea in 2019, of 123.

Burnt area
2,103ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
7 Feb 2019 – 14 Feb 2019
Municipalities hit
1
sub-prefectures
Started on
7 Feb
2019
Heat detections
59
in a single hotspot: 45 MW
Energy released
461MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

14 Feb 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Feb14 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.

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,775 ha in 2016, 50 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Manfran where it started
    2,116 ha reached on 7 Feb
    2.4 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Jan 2019
After · 21 Feb 2019

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 · 59Every 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 7 February 2019 and 14 February 2019: 8 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 2,103 hectares (21.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manfran (2,116 ha, 2.4 %).
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.