Manfran fire, 1 February 2024 Manfran, Tokounou
The fire started on 1 February 2024 in Manfran, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,906 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 28th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 9 in Guinea in 2024, of 118.
- Burnt area
- 5,906ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 12days
- 1 Feb 2024 – 12 Feb 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 1 Feb
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 251
- in a single hotspot: 89 MW
- Danger at start
- 47
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2.3GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,241 ha in 2016, 4,041 ha in 2017, 264 ha in 2018, 3,516 ha in 2019, 4,621 ha in 2020, 3,554 ha in 2021, 4,220 ha in 2022, 184 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,865 ha that had burned before.
- 4,605 ha Manfran fire, January 2020 19,542 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,891 ha Manfran fire, January 2022 40,177 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,554 ha Manfran fire, January 2021 26,206 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,289 ha Manfran fire, February 2019 26,689 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,231 ha Manfran fire, January 2017 70,029 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,397 ha Manfran fire, January 2016 7,141 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 479 ha Tokounou fire, January 2016 9,728 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 119 ha Tokounou fire, January 2018 12,627 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Manfran where it started4,875 ha reached on 25 Jan5.6 %
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1,069 ha reached on 27 Jan1.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Feb | 35.0 °C | 14 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 2 Feb | 35.4 °C | 15 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 3 Feb | 34.9 °C | 16 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 4 Feb | 34.4 °C | 15 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 5 Feb | 35.6 °C | 13 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 6 Feb | 35.6 °C | 12 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 7 Feb | 35.1 °C | 13 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 8 Feb | 36.6 °C | 14 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 9 Feb | 37.2 °C | 14 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 10 Feb | 38.1 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 11 Feb | 36.2 °C | 18 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 12 Feb | 38.3 °C | 19 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 13 Feb after | 38.7 °C | 17 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 14 Feb after | 39.2 °C | 14 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 15 Feb after | 39.2 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 16 Feb after | 37.8 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 17 Feb after | 37.5 °C | 14 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 18 Feb after | 38.6 °C | 15 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 19 Feb after | 38.5 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 20 Feb after | 37.1 °C | 9 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 21 Feb after | 36.6 °C | 10 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 22 Feb after | 35.5 °C | 11 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 251Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 19,542 haManfran24 January 2020 · 16 days · 5 km away
- 26,206 haManfran23 January 2021 · 9 days · 7 km away
- 40,177 haManfranJanuary 2022 · 30 days · 13 km away
- 25,026 haFirawaJanuary 2016 · 13 days · 13 km away
- 72,176 haAlbadariah7 January 2026 · 48 days · 15 km away
- 70,029 haManfranJanuary 2017 · 16 days · 15 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Manfran fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 February 2024 and 12 February 2024: 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 5,906 hectares (59.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Manfran (4,875 ha, 5.6 %); Tokounou (1,069 ha, 1.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.3 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
- 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.