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Manono fire, June 2019 Manono

Out · last detection 25 Jun 2019, 11:15 UTC

The fire started on 11 June 2019 in Manono, Congo - Kinshasa, and satellites saw it burning for 14 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,875 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 150th largest in Tanganyika since 2016 (of 232 with a page). Number 86 in Congo - Kinshasa in 2019, of 115.

Burnt area
5,875ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
14days
11 Jun 2019 – 24 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
territories
Started on
11 Jun
2019
Heat detections
242
in a single hotspot: 106 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

25 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jun24 Jun

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

34°high
42km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

29% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,170 ha in 2016, 1,278 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,724 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manono where it started
    5,908 ha reached on 6 Jun
    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)
11 Jun 32.9 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
12 Jun 33.6 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
13 Jun 34.2 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Jun 34.4 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
15 Jun 33.6 °C 22 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Jun 33.4 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Jun 33.9 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Jun 34.0 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
19 Jun 33.9 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Jun 34.4 °C 22 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
21 Jun 33.6 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
22 Jun 33.1 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
23 Jun 33.1 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
24 Jun 34.0 °C 20 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
25 Jun after 34.2 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
26 Jun after 33.2 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Jun after 33.6 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
28 Jun after 33.3 °C 28 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
29 Jun after 33.7 °C 26 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
30 Jun after 34.5 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
1 Jul after 35.0 °C 20 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Jul after 33.4 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Jul after 34.6 °C 22 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
4 Jul after 34.4 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jun 2019
After · 1 Jul 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 · 242Every 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 Manono fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 June 2019 and 24 June 2019: 14 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 5,875 hectares (58.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manono (5,908 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Congo - Kinshasa (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

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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.