How long did the Mariscal Estigarribia fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 July 2016 to 11 August 2016 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 July 2016 to 7 August 2016.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,302 hectares (23.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Mariscal Estigarribia (2,294 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 74 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, class Extreme.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

PY · Paraguay · 2016-07-16 → 2016-08-11

Mariscal Estigarribia fire, 16 July 2016 Mariscal Estigarribia

Out · last detection 11 Aug 2016, 17:06 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2016 in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,302 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 101th largest in Boquerón since 2016 (of 291 with a page). Number 45 in Paraguay in 2016, of 124.

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Burnt area: 2,302ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 27days; 16 Jul 2016 – 11 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 16 Jul; 2016
Heat detections: 155; in a single hotspot: 207 MW
Danger at start: 16; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 109MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul11 Aug

Play back 11 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

16 Jul 21 Jul 25 Jul 27 Jul 29 Jul 2 Aug 7 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

36°high

74km/h · peak gust

19%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 19 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 1.5% of the area of London (23 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Mariscal Estigarribia where it started

2,294 ha reached on 16 Jul

0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2015

Built-up area0.24 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.24 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
16 Jul	22.7 °C	34 %	44 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 16
17 Jul	19.9 °C	33 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
18 Jul	18.1 °C	45 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
19 Jul	20.3 °C	29 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
20 Jul	23.1 °C	30 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
21 Jul	25.1 °C	28 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
22 Jul	27.0 °C	31 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
23 Jul	33.8 °C	20 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
24 Jul	35.5 °C	19 %	55 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
25 Jul	35.6 °C	21 %	74 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
26 Jul	28.4 °C	42 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
27 Jul	24.5 °C	31 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
28 Jul	23.5 °C	42 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
29 Jul	30.6 °C	33 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
30 Jul	34.6 °C	23 %	58 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 50
31 Jul	36.2 °C	20 %	64 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
1 Aug	30.8 °C	39 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
2 Aug	27.4 °C	45 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
3 Aug	32.3 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
4 Aug	35.3 °C	25 %	55 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
5 Aug	36.2 °C	26 %	67 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
6 Aug	34.8 °C	33 %	59 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
7 Aug	25.0 °C	53 %	35 km/h	2.3 mm	Low 10
8 Aug	19.4 °C	78 %	26 km/h	4.3 mm	Very low 0
9 Aug	24.9 °C	32 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
10 Aug	28.4 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
11 Aug	29.0 °C	26 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
12 Aug after	32.0 °C	35 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
13 Aug after	36.7 °C	26 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
14 Aug after	37.6 °C	25 %	63 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
15 Aug after	37.9 °C	33 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
16 Aug after	39.0 °C	28 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
17 Aug after	38.3 °C	33 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
18 Aug after	34.0 °C	35 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
19 Aug after	36.2 °C	31 %	40 km/h	1.1 mm	High 35

Before and after, from space

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Before · 9 Jul 2016

After · 18 Aug 2016

Before After

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 · 155Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mariscal Estigarribia fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 July 2016 to 11 August 2016 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 July 2016 to 7 August 2016.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,302 hectares (23.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Mariscal Estigarribia (2,294 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 74 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (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: 132 · 911 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 7 August 2016 → 11 August 2016.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 16 July 2016 to 7 August 2016. 155 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.

Where it burned