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Manicoré fire, July 2019 Manicoré

Out · last detection 17 Aug 2019, 18:06 UTC

The fire started on 30 July 2019 in Manicoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 19 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,014 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 161th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 467 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

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Burnt area
5,014ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
19days
30 Jul 2019 – 17 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
30 Jul
2019
Heat detections
299
in a single hotspot: 341 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
380MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jul17 Aug
17 Aug 2019

How it evolved, day by day

31 Jul 2019 · 3 MW · 1 1 Aug 2019 · 1 MW · 1 3 Aug 2019 · 13 MW · 2 4 Aug 2019 · 2,642 MW · 32 5 Aug 2019 · 468 MW · 35 6 Aug 2019 · 424 MW · 32 7 Aug 2019 · 574 MW · 56 8 Aug 2019 · 8 MW · 2 9 Aug 2019 · 663 MW · 13 10 Aug 2019 · 14 MW · 3 11 Aug 2019 · 17 MW · 3 12 Aug 2019 · 336 MW · 26 13 Aug 2019 · 659 MW · 45 14 Aug 2019 · 609 MW · 32 15 Aug 2019 · 25 MW · 10 16 Aug 2019 · 5 MW · 5 17 Aug 2019 · 7 MW · 1
31 Jul 4 Aug 7 Aug 10 Aug 13 Aug 16 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
46km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 18 Aug.

This area had burned before

49% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 856 ha in 2016, 2,850 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,476 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.2% of the area of London (50 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Manicoré where it started
    5,055 ha reached on 31 Jul
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area 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)
31 Jul 38.3 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Aug 37.3 °C 19 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Aug 37.3 °C 23 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Aug 33.5 °C 30 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
4 Aug 32.7 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
5 Aug 34.5 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
6 Aug 36.3 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Aug 34.4 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Aug 34.1 °C 41 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 29
9 Aug 36.1 °C 26 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug 37.9 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Aug 37.9 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Aug 38.1 °C 19 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
13 Aug 38.4 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Aug 36.4 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
15 Aug 36.0 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Aug 31.6 °C 55 % 22 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 18
17 Aug 32.3 °C 49 % 37 km/h 2.6 mm Low 8
18 Aug after 33.0 °C 46 % 27 km/h 1.5 mm Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jul 2019
After · 24 Aug 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 · 299Every 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 Manicoré fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 30 July 2019 to 17 August 2019 (19 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 August 2019 to 16 August 2019.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,014 hectares (50.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manicoré (5,055 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 16 August 2019 → 17 August 2019.
  2. Start date: 3 August 2019 → 30 July 2019.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 3 August 2019 to 16 August 2019. 299 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.