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Nanpara fire, April 2019 India

Out · last detection 2 May 2019, 08:13 UTC

The fire started on 21 April 2019 in Nanpara, India, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,844 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 2th largest in Uttar Pradesh since 2016 (of 30 with a page). Number 2 in India in 2019, of 28.

The power measured by the satellite is low (10.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
21,844ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
21 Apr 2019 – 2 May 2019
Municipalities hit
0
subdistricts
Started on
21 Apr
2019
Heat detections
187
in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
534MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 May 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Apr2 May

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
54km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 16 May.

This area had burned before

82% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 15,303 ha in 2016, 10,034 ha in 2017, 3,612 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 17,964 ha that had burned before.

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)
19 Apr 31.6 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Apr 32.6 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Apr 33.2 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
22 Apr 33.5 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
23 Apr 32.7 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
24 Apr 33.6 °C 36 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Apr 35.7 °C 31 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 Apr 36.6 °C 22 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
27 Apr 36.9 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
28 Apr 36.7 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
29 Apr 36.4 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Apr 37.1 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 May 37.6 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
2 May 37.1 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 May after 32.2 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 42
4 May after 33.2 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
5 May after 35.2 °C 15 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
6 May after 36.3 °C 15 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
7 May after 37.0 °C 14 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
8 May after 37.5 °C 15 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
9 May after 37.2 °C 15 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
10 May after 36.4 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
11 May after 37.0 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 May after 35.4 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
13 May after 35.6 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 May after 32.8 °C 32 % 33 km/h 0.8 mm High 31
15 May after 33.9 °C 31 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 May after 34.8 °C 29 % 35 km/h 1.8 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Apr 2019
After · 9 May 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 · 187Every 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 Nanpara fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 April 2019 and 2 May 2019: 12 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 21,844 hectares (218.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (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: 112

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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 ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.