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Manicoré fire, 14 July 2024 Manicoré

Out · last detection 17 Aug 2024, 17:10 UTC

The fire started on 14 July 2024 in Manicoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 34 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,399 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 87th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 447 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
7,399ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
34days
14 Jul 2024 – 16 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Jul
2024
Heat detections
587
in a single hotspot: 277 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index
Energy released
6.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Aug 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jul16 Aug

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

39°high
39km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.3 mm on 25 Aug.

This area had burned before

47% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,891 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,487 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manicoré where it started
    7,444 ha reached on 17 Jul
    0.2 %

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)
14 Jul 33.0 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
15 Jul 34.0 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
16 Jul 35.1 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Jul 35.0 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jul 35.9 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
19 Jul 36.4 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Jul 37.1 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jul 36.3 °C 31 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
22 Jul 36.2 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Jul 36.4 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Jul 36.6 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jul 36.5 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 Jul 36.1 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
27 Jul 34.9 °C 35 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
28 Jul 36.5 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jul 37.4 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
30 Jul 37.1 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
31 Jul 36.2 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Aug 36.9 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
2 Aug 36.3 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Aug 35.0 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
4 Aug 36.4 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Aug 36.6 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
6 Aug 36.8 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
7 Aug 38.5 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Aug 38.7 °C 23 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
9 Aug 38.8 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Aug 33.0 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Aug 34.0 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Aug 34.1 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Aug 35.6 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Aug 35.5 °C 38 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm High 33
15 Aug 34.7 °C 47 % 30 km/h 3.0 mm Low 11
16 Aug 31.1 °C 69 % 19 km/h 8.5 mm Very low 0
17 Aug after 35.7 °C 39 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
18 Aug after 36.0 °C 40 % 21 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 20
19 Aug after 36.7 °C 40 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
20 Aug after 35.7 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 20
21 Aug after 35.8 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
22 Aug after 37.9 °C 34 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
23 Aug after 38.8 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
24 Aug after 36.6 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.4 mm High 30
25 Aug after 34.4 °C 48 % 34 km/h 3.3 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jul 2024
After · 23 Aug 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 25 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 159 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 103: 6.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak159 µg/m³
Days over the guideline32 days
PM10227 µg/m³
Optical depth2.97
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 587Every 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?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 July 2024 and 16 August 2024: 34 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 7,399 hectares (74.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manicoré (7,444 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
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

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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 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.