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Manyoni fire, 12 June 2019 Manyoni, Chunya

Out · last detection 21 Jun 2019, 10:49 UTC

The fire started on 12 June 2019 in Manyoni, Tanzania, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,311 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 14th largest in Singida since 2016 (of 124 with a page). Number 20 in Tanzania in 2019, of 123.

Burnt area
9,311ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
12 Jun 2019 – 20 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
12 Jun
2019
Heat detections
296
in a single hotspot: 265 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Jun20 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

29°high
46km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 30 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 7,793 ha in 2016, 4,189 ha in 2017, 3,261 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 8,719 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Manyoni where it started
    8,149 ha reached on 10 Jun
    0.3 %
  2. Chunya
    1,232 ha reached on 16 Jun
    0.1 %

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)
12 Jun 28.5 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Jun 27.3 °C 35 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Jun 27.6 °C 32 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Jun 27.3 °C 28 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Jun 28.0 °C 25 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
17 Jun 28.4 °C 26 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Jun 28.3 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Jun 27.9 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
20 Jun 28.9 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
21 Jun after 28.2 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Jun after 28.3 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Jun after 28.7 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Jun after 27.3 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Jun after 28.2 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 Jun after 27.6 °C 36 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
27 Jun after 27.8 °C 35 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
28 Jun after 28.0 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jun after 27.7 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
30 Jun after 27.5 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jun 2019
After · 27 Jun 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 · 296Every 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 12 June 2019 and 20 June 2019: 9 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 9,311 hectares (93.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Manyoni (8,149 ha, 0.3 %); Chunya (1,232 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.9 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 46 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.