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Manicoré fire, 13 August 2024 Manicoré, Novo Aripuanã

Out · last detection 2 Sept 2024, 17:10 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2024 in Manicoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,543 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 35th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 268 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
11,543ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
20days
13 Aug 2024 – 1 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2024
Heat detections
1,129
in a single hotspot: 318 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
15.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug1 Sept

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

38°high
39km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 639 ha in 2016, 2,744 ha in 2017, 2,935 ha in 2018, 1,328 ha in 2019, 4,855 ha in 2020, 816 ha in 2021, 7,933 ha in 2022, 1,311 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 8,462 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manicoré where it started
    10,425 ha reached on 6 Aug
    0.2 %
  2. Novo Aripuanã 23,818 inhabitants
    1,225 ha reached on 10 Aug
    0.0 %

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)
6 Aug 35.0 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
7 Aug 36.3 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Aug 37.2 °C 23 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
9 Aug 36.5 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Aug 30.3 °C 41 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Aug 32.3 °C 31 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 Aug 33.5 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
13 Aug 34.6 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Aug 35.0 °C 29 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Aug 35.3 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Aug 33.4 °C 46 % 30 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 12
17 Aug 35.2 °C 34 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
18 Aug 35.6 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.3 mm High 27
19 Aug 35.2 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Aug 34.9 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
21 Aug 35.7 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Aug 36.7 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
23 Aug 37.8 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Aug 35.7 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.3 mm High 34
25 Aug 32.4 °C 46 % 25 km/h 5.0 mm Low 8
26 Aug 31.5 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
27 Aug 34.3 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
28 Aug 34.7 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
29 Aug 34.7 °C 35 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Aug 36.3 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
31 Aug 36.0 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Sept 37.1 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
2 Sept after 36.3 °C 31 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
3 Sept after 35.5 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
4 Sept after 36.0 °C 36 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Sept after 37.8 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 Sept after 35.5 °C 34 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
7 Sept after 33.4 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Sept after 36.4 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Sept after 36.3 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Sept after 35.1 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
11 Sept after 34.9 °C 44 % 38 km/h 0.6 mm High 25
12 Sept after 37.0 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Sept after 37.3 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
14 Sept after 36.5 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm High 32
15 Sept after 34.3 °C 43 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Sept after 35.9 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.4 mm High 28
17 Sept after 36.7 °C 33 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Sept after 35.0 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2024
After · 8 Sept 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 27 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 448 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 257: 17 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak448 µg/m³
Days over the guideline25 days
PM10641 µg/m³
Optical depth5.36
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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 · 1,129Every 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 13 August 2024 and 1 September 2024: 20 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 11,543 hectares (115.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Manicoré (10,425 ha, 0.2 %); Novo Aripuanã (1,225 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.