Burned area
satellite only1,583ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 1 Aug 2016 – 9 Aug 2016
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CG · Republic of the Congo · –
Ngabé fire, August 2016 Ngabé
Out · last detection 9 Aug 2016, 12:44 UTC
The fire started on 1 August 2016 in Ngabé, Republic of the Congo, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,583 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 57th largest in Pool since 2016 (of 202 with a page). Number 26 in Republic of the Congo in 2016, of 98.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only9days
1 Aug 2016 to 9 Aug 2016: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 9 Aug 2016, 12:44 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only1 Aug 2016
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 1 Aug 2016
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
The worst day
satellite only185MW
Total radiative power on 9 August 2016; hotspots that day: 9.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 9 Aug 2016
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logStart date: 30 July 2016 → 1 August 2016.
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logStart date: 1 August 2016 → 30 July 2016.
Area logged each night
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/ngabe-2016-08?v=2026-10-27A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire ngabe-2016-08.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-01 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-02 | 8 | 38 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-03 | 8 | 13 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-04 | 13 | 69 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-05 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-06 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-07 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2016-08-09 | 9 | 185 | 1 |
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Sources for this page: GWIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
- Burnt area
- 1,583ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 9days
- 1 Aug 2016 – 9 Aug 2016
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 Aug
- 2016
- Heat detections
- 44
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 40MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Aug9 Aug
9 Aug 2016
How it evolved, day by day
1 Aug
3 Aug
5 Aug
9 Aug
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Ngabé where it started1,595 ha0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 25 Jul 2016
After · 16 Aug 2016
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Detections table · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ngabé fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 August 2016 and 9 August 2016: 9 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 1,583 hectares (15.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ngabé (1,595 ha, 0.2 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Republic of the Congo (geoBoundaries ADM2). 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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 30 July 2016 → 1 August 2016.
- Start date: 1 August 2016 → 30 July 2016.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
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 (Map Library 2007, nombres de Wikidata) (Public Domain). 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.