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Manyoni fire, June 2016 Manyoni, Chunya

Out · last detection 27 Jun 2016, 11:09 UTC

The fire started on 20 June 2016 in Manyoni, Tanzania, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,323 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 105th largest in Singida since 2016 (of 124 with a page). Number 135 in Tanzania in 2016, of 160.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
3,323ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
20 Jun 2016 – 26 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
20 Jun
2016
Heat detections
79
in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index
Energy released
307MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

27 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jun26 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

20212223242527

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
45km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 49 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Manyoni where it started
    3,294 ha reached on 18 Jun
    0.1 %
  2. Chunya
    58 ha reached on 25 Jun
    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)
20 Jun 24.3 °C 37 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Jun 25.2 °C 38 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
22 Jun 25.0 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Jun 24.8 °C 29 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Jun 23.7 °C 33 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jun 24.2 °C 32 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
26 Jun 25.0 °C 33 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
27 Jun after 24.5 °C 31 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Jun after 24.9 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
29 Jun after 24.8 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
30 Jun after 24.1 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Jul after 25.6 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
2 Jul after 26.4 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Jul after 24.5 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Jul after 24.2 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
5 Jul after 24.4 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
6 Jul after 25.0 °C 29 % 30 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 · 13 Jun 2016
After · 3 Jul 2016

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 · 79Every 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 Manyoni fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 20 June 2016 and 26 June 2016: 7 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 3,323 hectares (33.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Manyoni (3,294 ha, 0.1 %); Chunya (58 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.2 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tanzania (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: 112

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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.