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Matupá fire, September 2024 Matupá, Peixoto de Azevedo

Out · last detection 23 Sept 2024, 17:15 UTC

The fire started on 1 September 2024 in Matupá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,134 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 464th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 316 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
10,134ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
24days
1 Sept 2024 – 24 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
1 Sept
2024
Heat detections
444
in a single hotspot: 110 MW
Danger at start
48
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
3.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

23 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Sept24 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

38°high
45km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 30 Sept.

This area had burned before

62% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 214 ha in 2016, 6,117 ha in 2017, 1,564 ha in 2020, 936 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,322 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Matupá where it started
    10,197 ha reached on 28 Aug
    1.9 %
  2. Peixoto de Azevedo 32,714 inhabitants
    0 ha reached on 5 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 36.8 °C 19 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
29 Aug 35.6 °C 20 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
30 Aug 35.0 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
31 Aug 35.9 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
1 Sept 36.9 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Sept 36.8 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Sept 35.1 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
4 Sept 37.3 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
5 Sept 38.4 °C 11 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
6 Sept 37.3 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
7 Sept 36.7 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
8 Sept 37.5 °C 16 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
9 Sept 37.0 °C 18 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
10 Sept 36.5 °C 22 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
11 Sept 35.2 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Sept 36.7 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Sept 37.0 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Sept 36.7 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
15 Sept 37.0 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Sept 36.1 °C 28 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
17 Sept 37.5 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
18 Sept 36.1 °C 32 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
19 Sept 35.3 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Sept 37.5 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
21 Sept 36.0 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Sept 36.0 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
23 Sept 35.4 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm High 37
24 Sept 34.8 °C 37 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Sept after 35.4 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 37
26 Sept after 35.2 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
27 Sept after 34.8 °C 35 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
28 Sept after 35.0 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.8 mm High 26
29 Sept after 33.9 °C 43 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
30 Sept after 34.7 °C 36 % 31 km/h 1.3 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Aug 2024
After · 1 Oct 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 11 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 184 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 124: 8.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak184 µg/m³
Days over the guideline40 days
PM10263 µg/m³
Optical depth2.73
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 444Every 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 1 September 2024 and 24 September 2024: 24 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 10,134 hectares (101.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Matupá (10,197 ha, 1.9 %); Peixoto de Azevedo (0 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
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.