How long did the Nova Mamoré fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 August 2016 and 31 August 2016: 18 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 4,811 hectares (48.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Nova Mamoré (4,843 ha, 0.5 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class 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 · 2016-08-14 → 2016-08-31

Nova Mamoré fire, 14 August 2016 Nova Mamoré

Out · last detection 31 Aug 2016, 17:34 UTC

The fire started on 14 August 2016 in Nova Mamoré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,811 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 130th largest in Rondônia since 2016 (of 300 with a page). Number 296 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area: 4,811ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 18days; 14 Aug 2016 – 31 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 14 Aug; 2016
Heat detections: 501; in a single hotspot: 155 MW
Danger at start: 33; High · FWI index
Energy released: 7.0GW; sum of detected power

Play back 31 Aug 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Aug31 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

37°high

55km/h · peak gust

30%lowest humidity

It had gone 59 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.3 mm on 14 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

4,843 ha reached on 14 Aug

0.5 %

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)
7 Aug	36.1 °C	37 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
8 Aug	36.5 °C	33 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	High 32
9 Aug	33.8 °C	41 %	35 km/h	12.7 mm	Low 6
10 Aug	33.0 °C	39 %	37 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 21
11 Aug	33.6 °C	34 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
12 Aug	34.7 °C	35 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
13 Aug	35.3 °C	33 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
14 Aug	36.2 °C	38 %	28 km/h	0.3 mm	High 26
15 Aug	35.8 °C	40 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
16 Aug	35.7 °C	42 %	30 km/h	0.9 mm	Moderate 21
17 Aug	35.9 °C	42 %	32 km/h	1.0 mm	Moderate 21
18 Aug	36.7 °C	35 %	25 km/h	2.8 mm	Moderate 12
19 Aug	35.1 °C	40 %	32 km/h	1.3 mm	Moderate 16
20 Aug	31.5 °C	68 %	28 km/h	7.2 mm	Very low 2
21 Aug	25.3 °C	51 %	55 km/h	9.7 mm	Very low 2
22 Aug	29.1 °C	30 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
23 Aug	34.2 °C	31 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
24 Aug	36.1 °C	33 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
25 Aug	36.4 °C	34 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
26 Aug	36.7 °C	32 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
27 Aug	35.4 °C	38 %	30 km/h	0.4 mm	High 23
28 Aug	33.9 °C	47 %	41 km/h	3.0 mm	Low 9
29 Aug	34.6 °C	44 %	34 km/h	0.5 mm	Moderate 16
30 Aug	24.7 °C	71 %	35 km/h	5.8 mm	Very low 1
31 Aug	32.5 °C	48 %	20 km/h	2.5 mm	Very low 3
1 Sept after	33.2 °C	46 %	23 km/h	1.7 mm	Very low 5
2 Sept after	31.8 °C	59 %	22 km/h	5.5 mm	Very low 1
3 Sept after	31.0 °C	57 %	28 km/h	0.8 mm	Very low 4
4 Sept after	23.1 °C	57 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
5 Sept after	29.9 °C	41 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
6 Sept after	30.6 °C	41 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
7 Sept after	33.1 °C	33 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
8 Sept after	34.2 °C	34 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
9 Sept after	36.3 °C	29 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
10 Sept after	38.4 °C	27 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
11 Sept after	38.0 °C	27 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
12 Sept after	34.8 °C	43 %	37 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
13 Sept after	35.0 °C	43 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
14 Sept after	36.1 °C	43 %	25 km/h	4.3 mm	Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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Before · 7 Aug 2016

After · 7 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 · 501Every 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 14 August 2016 and 31 August 2016: 18 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 4,811 hectares (48.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Nova Mamoré (4,843 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class 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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