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Natividade fire, 8 August 2016 Natividade

Out · last detection 18 Aug 2016, 16:37 UTC

The fire started on 8 August 2016 in Natividade, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,378 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1041th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 532 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area
3,378ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
8 Aug 2016 – 18 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
8 Aug
2016
Heat detections
97
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Energy released
843MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Aug18 Aug

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
36km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 56 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Natividade 8,754 inhabitants where it started
    3,400 ha reached on 8 Aug
    1.0 %

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)
8 Aug 35.1 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Aug 35.5 °C 22 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Aug 36.7 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
11 Aug 36.8 °C 19 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
12 Aug 36.5 °C 21 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Aug 36.2 °C 28 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Aug 35.8 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Aug 36.8 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Aug 36.0 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Aug 36.3 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Aug 38.0 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Aug after 37.9 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
20 Aug after 36.4 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
21 Aug after 37.5 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Aug after 35.1 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
23 Aug after 36.6 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Aug after 35.1 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Aug after 34.6 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
26 Aug after 34.5 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
27 Aug after 35.3 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
28 Aug after 33.4 °C 34 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
29 Aug after 35.3 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
30 Aug after 36.6 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
31 Aug after 36.5 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Aug 2016
After · 25 Aug 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 · 97Every 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 Natividade fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2016 and 18 August 2016: 11 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 3,378 hectares (33.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Natividade (3,400 ha, 1.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.0 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, 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.