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Nova Maringá fire, August 2020 Nova Maringá, Itanhangá

Out · last detection 26 Aug 2020, 17:33 UTC

The fire started on 2 August 2020 in Nova Maringá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,694 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1169th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 539 in Brazil in 2020, of 957.

Burnt area
4,694ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
24days
2 Aug 2020 – 25 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
2 Aug
2020
Heat detections
343
in a single hotspot: 130 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
3.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

26 Aug 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Aug25 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
51km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

66% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,434 ha in 2017, 1,195 ha in 2018, 1,142 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,113 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Maringá 5,846 inhabitants where it started
    4,707 ha reached on 1 Aug
    0.4 %
  2. Itanhangá 7,539 inhabitants
    7 ha
    0.0 %

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)
1 Aug 33.1 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Aug 33.0 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Aug 33.7 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
4 Aug 33.7 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
5 Aug 33.3 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
6 Aug 32.9 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
7 Aug 32.2 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Aug 33.3 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
9 Aug 33.1 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Aug 34.0 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Aug 34.9 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Aug 36.3 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Aug 36.2 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Aug 36.2 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Aug 35.9 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Aug 36.5 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Aug 37.4 °C 20 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Aug 37.6 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Aug 37.1 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Aug 34.9 °C 32 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
21 Aug 22.3 °C 50 % 51 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
22 Aug 29.2 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
23 Aug 33.1 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Aug 36.4 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Aug 34.3 °C 34 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Aug after 35.7 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
27 Aug after 36.5 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Aug after 37.7 °C 23 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Aug after 37.1 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Aug after 35.7 °C 26 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Aug after 37.8 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
1 Sept after 36.5 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Sept after 36.9 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
3 Sept after 36.0 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
4 Sept after 37.0 °C 18 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
5 Sept after 37.4 °C 17 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
6 Sept after 38.0 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
7 Sept after 38.3 °C 16 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
8 Sept after 38.2 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
9 Sept after 38.1 °C 18 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Sept after 38.1 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
11 Sept after 37.2 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Jul 2020
After · 1 Sept 2020

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 · 343Every 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 2 August 2020 and 25 August 2020: 24 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 4,694 hectares (46.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nova Maringá (4,707 ha, 0.4 %); Itanhangá (7 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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.