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Manono fire, 26 June 2022 Manono

Out · last detection 8 Jul 2022, 11:21 UTC

The fire started on 26 June 2022 in Manono, Congo - Kinshasa, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,021 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 96th largest in Tanganyika since 2016 (of 232 with a page). Number 44 in Congo - Kinshasa in 2022, of 106.

Burnt area
7,021ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
13days
26 Jun 2022 – 8 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
territories
Started on
26 Jun
2022
Heat detections
215
in a single hotspot: 172 MW
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jun8 Jul

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

33°high
48km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 54 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

71% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,515 ha in 2016, 2,347 ha in 2017, 329 ha in 2018, 141 ha in 2019, 2,429 ha in 2020, 42 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,979 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manono where it started
    7,060 ha reached on 26 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)
26 Jun 31.9 °C 25 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Jun 31.5 °C 24 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
28 Jun 29.8 °C 29 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
29 Jun 30.5 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jun 32.2 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Jul 31.8 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
2 Jul 32.6 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Jul 33.1 °C 23 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
4 Jul 32.4 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Jul 32.1 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
6 Jul 32.2 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 Jul 32.8 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
8 Jul 32.9 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Jul after 32.1 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Jul after 32.9 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Jul after 32.6 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Jul after 32.5 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
13 Jul after 32.1 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Jul after 33.3 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Jul after 33.4 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Jul after 32.7 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 Jul after 32.0 °C 23 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Jul after 31.5 °C 26 % 42 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 · 19 Jun 2022
After · 15 Jul 2022

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 · 215Every 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 26 June 2022 and 8 July 2022: 13 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 7,021 hectares (70.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manono (7,060 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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

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 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.