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Manyoni fire, 7 September 2016 Manyoni

Out · last detection 13 Sept 2016, 22:50 UTC

The fire started on 7 September 2016 in Manyoni, Tanzania, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,597 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 51th largest in Singida since 2016 (of 124 with a page). Number 66 in Tanzania in 2016, of 160.

Burnt area
4,597ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
7 Sept 2016 – 13 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
7 Sept
2016
Heat detections
119
in a single hotspot: 85 MW
Danger at start
43
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
1.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Sept13 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

30°high
50km/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

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

What happened to each town

  1. Manyoni where it started
    4,632 ha reached on 7 Sept
    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)
7 Sept 28.2 °C 34 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Sept 28.5 °C 35 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
9 Sept 28.5 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
10 Sept 28.2 °C 25 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
11 Sept 28.5 °C 25 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
12 Sept 28.6 °C 26 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
13 Sept 29.5 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Sept after 29.3 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
15 Sept after 29.4 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Sept after 29.8 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Sept after 29.4 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Sept after 29.3 °C 35 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Sept after 28.3 °C 25 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
20 Sept after 27.6 °C 27 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Sept after 27.5 °C 25 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Sept after 28.9 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
23 Sept after 29.1 °C 33 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Aug 2016
After · 20 Sept 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 · 119Every 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 7 September 2016 and 13 September 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 4,597 hectares (46.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manyoni (4,632 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 50 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 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.