How long did the Nova Mamoré fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 July 2016 and 28 August 2016: 31 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 13,157 hectares (131.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nova Mamoré (11,826 ha, 1.2 %); Buritis (1,401 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 46 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.

BR · Brazil · 2016-07-29 → 2016-08-28

Nova Mamoré fire, 29 July 2016 Nova Mamoré, Buritis

Out · last detection 29 Aug 2016, 18:12 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2016 in Nova Mamoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 13,157 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 30th largest in Rondônia since 2016 (of 300 with a page). Number 56 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area: 13,157ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 31days; 29 Jul 2016 – 28 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 29 Jul; 2016
Heat detections: 982; in a single hotspot: 254 MW
Danger at start: 39; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 14.4GW; sum of detected power

Play back 29 Aug 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul28 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

46km/h · peak gust

17%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.6 mm on 2 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Nova Mamoré 25,444 inhabitants where it started

11,826 ha reached on 29 Jul

1.2 %
Buritis 27,992 inhabitants

1,401 ha reached on 10 Aug

0.4 %

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)
25 Jul	36.9 °C	22 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
26 Jul	34.8 °C	36 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
27 Jul	37.1 °C	24 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
28 Jul	37.2 °C	20 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
29 Jul	37.0 °C	17 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
30 Jul	36.7 °C	20 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
31 Jul	37.5 °C	23 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
1 Aug	38.4 °C	18 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
2 Aug	37.3 °C	22 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
3 Aug	37.7 °C	20 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
4 Aug	37.4 °C	22 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
5 Aug	37.7 °C	25 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
6 Aug	37.0 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
7 Aug	35.8 °C	41 %	22 km/h	0.2 mm	High 29
8 Aug	37.4 °C	31 %	29 km/h	2.1 mm	Moderate 20
9 Aug	34.2 °C	43 %	30 km/h	9.2 mm	Low 6
10 Aug	33.0 °C	43 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
11 Aug	33.0 °C	39 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
12 Aug	34.1 °C	40 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
13 Aug	34.8 °C	39 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
14 Aug	36.1 °C	41 %	26 km/h	0.3 mm	High 23
15 Aug	36.1 °C	42 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
16 Aug	35.1 °C	45 %	24 km/h	0.9 mm	Moderate 19
17 Aug	35.1 °C	47 %	29 km/h	1.2 mm	Moderate 16
18 Aug	37.0 °C	36 %	24 km/h	3.7 mm	Low 8
19 Aug	34.0 °C	46 %	29 km/h	1.2 mm	Moderate 12
20 Aug	29.0 °C	79 %	23 km/h	14.0 mm	Very low 0
21 Aug	26.6 °C	50 %	46 km/h	10.3 mm	Very low 1
22 Aug	29.3 °C	32 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
23 Aug	33.5 °C	34 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
24 Aug	35.3 °C	36 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
25 Aug	35.9 °C	37 %	20 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 16
26 Aug	36.3 °C	36 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
27 Aug	35.0 °C	43 %	27 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 19
28 Aug	33.3 °C	47 %	41 km/h	4.0 mm	Low 5
29 Aug after	34.9 °C	44 %	31 km/h	0.8 mm	Moderate 11
30 Aug after	25.9 °C	72 %	32 km/h	12.4 mm	Very low 0
31 Aug after	31.7 °C	54 %	19 km/h	1.1 mm	Very low 2
1 Sept after	32.1 °C	51 %	22 km/h	0.2 mm	Low 6
2 Sept after	28.7 °C	81 %	19 km/h	11.6 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 22 Jul 2016

After · 4 Sept 2016

Before After

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 · 982Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Nova Mamoré fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 July 2016 and 28 August 2016: 31 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 13,157 hectares (131.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nova Mamoré (11,826 ha, 1.2 %); Buritis (1,401 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 46 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.

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