Miranda fire, July 2024 Aquidauana, Miranda
The fire started on 23 July 2024 in Miranda, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 276,504 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.
It is the 2th largest in Mato Grosso do Sul since 2016 (of 506 with a page). The largest in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
- Burnt area
- 276,504ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 17days
- 23 Jul 2024 – 8 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 23 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 13,166
- in a single hotspot: 713 MW
- Danger at start
- 39
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 297.2GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 20.6 mm on 9 Aug.
This area had burned before
45% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,457 ha in 2017, 1,378 ha in 2018, 52,834 ha in 2019, 2,079 ha in 2020, 85,501 ha in 2021, 1,448 ha in 2022, 18,652 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 124,863 ha that had burned before.
- 39,085 ha Aquidauana fire, October 2021 52,957 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 35,116 ha Aquidauana fire, September 2019 54,685 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 12,798 ha Corumbá fire, November 2023 124,691 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 10,806 ha Miranda fire, October 2021 11,664 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,847 ha Aquidauana fire, September 2019 6,261 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,159 ha Aquidauana fire, October 2021 5,321 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,024 ha Aquidauana fire, October 2019 9,110 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,623 ha Miranda fire, October 2021 5,229 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Aquidauana 46,803 inhabitants185,354 ha reached on 23 Jul11 %
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92,739 ha reached on 1 Aug17 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul | 33.7 °C | 19 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 24 Jul | 33.9 °C | 19 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 25 Jul | 35.2 °C | 21 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 26 Jul | 35.5 °C | 19 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 27 Jul | 36.1 °C | 20 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 28 Jul | 35.8 °C | 17 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 29 Jul | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 30 Jul | 31.0 °C | 37 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 31 Jul | 35.9 °C | 21 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 1 Aug | 36.7 °C | 20 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 2 Aug | 36.2 °C | 19 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 3 Aug | 37.0 °C | 19 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 4 Aug | 36.2 °C | 20 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 5 Aug | 36.4 °C | 19 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 6 Aug | 35.4 °C | 20 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 7 Aug | 36.3 °C | 19 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 8 Aug | 25.1 °C | 61 % | 30 km/h | 13.1 mm | Very low 3 |
| 9 Aug after | 15.7 °C | 65 % | 36 km/h | 20.6 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 4 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 278 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 111: 7.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 13,166Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Miranda fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 23 July 2024 and 8 August 2024: 17 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 276,504 hectares (2,765.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Aquidauana (185,354 ha, 11 %); Miranda (92,739 ha, 17 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, 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.