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Manfran fire, 11 February 2019 Manfran

Out · last detection 12 Feb 2019, 01:49 UTC

The fire started on 11 February 2019 in Manfran, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,137 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 179th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 94 in Guinea in 2019, of 123.

Burnt area
2,137ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
11 Feb 2019 – 12 Feb 2019
Municipalities hit
1
sub-prefectures
Started on
11 Feb
2019
Heat detections
47
in a single hotspot: 129 MW
Energy released
388MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

12 Feb 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Feb12 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

1112

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

This area had burned before

91% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 14 ha in 2016, 1,684 ha in 2017, 1,482 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,936 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manfran where it started
    2,151 ha reached on 11 Feb
    2.5 %

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 · 4 Feb 2019
After · 19 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 · 47Every 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 11 February 2019 and 12 February 2019: 2 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 2,137 hectares (21.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manfran (2,151 ha, 2.5 %).
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.