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Matupá fire, August 2019 Matupá, Peixoto de Azevedo

Out · last detection 24 Sept 2019, 05:17 UTC

The fire started on 28 August 2019 in Matupá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 17,109 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 227th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 64 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

Burnt area
17,109ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
27days
28 Aug 2019 – 23 Sept 2019
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
28 Aug
2019
Heat detections
1,723
in a single hotspot: 127 MW
Danger at start
38
High · FWI index
Energy released
15.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Sept 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Aug23 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

36°high
41km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.7 mm on 26 Sept.

This area had burned before

80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 14,062 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Matupá where it started
    17,110 ha reached on 28 Aug
    3.3 %
  2. Peixoto de Azevedo 32,714 inhabitants
    96 ha reached on 20 Sept
    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)
28 Aug 34.7 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
29 Aug 34.8 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
30 Aug 33.7 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
31 Aug 34.3 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Sept 34.8 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
2 Sept 34.6 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Sept 34.9 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Sept 36.2 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Sept 35.5 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
6 Sept 34.3 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Sept 34.2 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Sept 35.1 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Sept 35.3 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Sept 35.2 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
11 Sept 36.2 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Sept 35.2 °C 28 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
13 Sept 36.0 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Sept 34.8 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
15 Sept 33.5 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Sept 35.8 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
17 Sept 34.5 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Sept 33.5 °C 34 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Sept 34.4 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
20 Sept 35.2 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Sept 34.3 °C 44 % 27 km/h 2.4 mm Moderate 13
22 Sept 33.9 °C 48 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Sept 33.7 °C 47 % 30 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 20
24 Sept after 33.8 °C 45 % 25 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 15
25 Sept after 34.0 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
26 Sept after 31.7 °C 51 % 31 km/h 2.7 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Aug 2019
After · 30 Sept 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 · 1,723Every 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 Matupá fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 August 2019 and 23 September 2019: 27 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 17,109 hectares (171.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Matupá (17,110 ha, 3.3 %); Peixoto de Azevedo (96 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (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: 193

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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.