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Nova Maringá fire, July 2018 Nova Maringá

Out · last detection 8 Jul 2018, 17:58 UTC

The fire started on 7 July 2018 in Nova Maringá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,123 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1368th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 151 in Brazil in 2018, of 291.

Burnt area
4,123ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
7 Jul 2018 – 8 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
7 Jul
2018
Heat detections
282
in a single hotspot: 983 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
27.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Jul 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jul8 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

78

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
45km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 48 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 229 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Maringá 5,846 inhabitants where it started
    4,149 ha reached on 7 Jul
    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)
7 Jul 31.9 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Jul 33.1 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
9 Jul after 24.4 °C 56 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
10 Jul after 22.1 °C 57 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
11 Jul after 28.6 °C 45 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
12 Jul after 31.8 °C 38 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
13 Jul after 33.2 °C 38 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Jul after 34.0 °C 32 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
15 Jul after 34.4 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Jul after 33.8 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 Jul after 33.6 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jul after 33.0 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
19 Jul after 33.2 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Jul after 34.2 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Jul after 27.9 °C 48 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
22 Jul after 30.9 °C 36 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jul after 33.0 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
24 Jul after 31.4 °C 36 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Jul after 31.1 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jun 2018
After · 15 Jul 2018

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 · 282Every 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 Nova Maringá fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 July 2018 and 8 July 2018: 2 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 4,123 hectares (41.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Maringá (4,149 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.4 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.