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Masi-Manimba fire, 7 June 2016 Masi-Manimba

Out · last detection 13 Jun 2016, 12:13 UTC

The fire started on 7 June 2016 in Masi-Manimba, Congo - Kinshasa, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,553 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 77th largest in Kwilu since 2016 (of 236 with a page). Number 31 in Congo - Kinshasa in 2016, of 153.

Burnt area
9,553ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
7 Jun 2016 – 13 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
territories
Started on
7 Jun
2016
Heat detections
340
in a single hotspot: 255 MW
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
12.7GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jun13 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

34°high
36km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.6 mm on 29 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Masi-Manimba where it started
    9,618 ha reached on 2 Jun
    0.7 %

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)
2 Jun 31.9 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
3 Jun 33.0 °C 30 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Jun 30.9 °C 42 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
5 Jun 33.5 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
6 Jun 31.8 °C 42 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
7 Jun 31.6 °C 43 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
8 Jun 33.5 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
9 Jun 33.8 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Jun 32.7 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
11 Jun 34.1 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 Jun 33.9 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
13 Jun 33.6 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Jun after 30.4 °C 41 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
15 Jun after 29.9 °C 45 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Jun after 31.5 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 Jun after 30.1 °C 43 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jun after 31.9 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
19 Jun after 32.8 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
20 Jun after 31.8 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Jun after 29.7 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
22 Jun after 32.0 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jun after 33.2 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Jun after 32.0 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jun after 31.6 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
26 Jun after 32.1 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
27 Jun after 32.3 °C 33 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
28 Jun after 31.2 °C 46 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
29 Jun after 31.4 °C 48 % 22 km/h 2.6 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 May 2016
After · 20 Jun 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 · 340Every 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 Masi-Manimba fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 June 2016 and 13 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 9,553 hectares (95.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Masi-Manimba (9,618 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class 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.