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Nova Maringá fire, 10 August 2022 Nova Maringá

Out · last detection 7 Sept 2022, 17:22 UTC

The fire started on 10 August 2022 in Nova Maringá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 29 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,139 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 463th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 109 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

Burnt area
10,139ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
29days
10 Aug 2022 – 7 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Aug
2022
Heat detections
1,238
in a single hotspot: 199 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
15.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Sept 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Aug7 Sept

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
56km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 21 Sept.

This area had burned before

74% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,226 ha in 2017, 1,825 ha in 2018, 1,614 ha in 2019, 8,564 ha in 2020, 1,142 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 7,456 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Maringá 5,846 inhabitants where it started
    10,180 ha reached on 11 Aug
    0.9 %

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)
10 Aug 27.3 °C 40 % 43 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 19
11 Aug 31.2 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Aug 33.8 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Aug 36.4 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
14 Aug 36.6 °C 17 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Aug 33.6 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Aug 33.9 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 30
17 Aug 34.7 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Aug 35.7 °C 31 % 43 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 40
19 Aug 24.2 °C 54 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
20 Aug 28.8 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
21 Aug 34.1 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Aug 34.9 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
23 Aug 35.5 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
24 Aug 35.5 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Aug 36.6 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
26 Aug 36.1 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
27 Aug 35.3 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
28 Aug 37.6 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
29 Aug 34.0 °C 30 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
30 Aug 35.6 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Aug 37.2 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Sept 36.5 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Sept 37.1 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
3 Sept 36.2 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 Sept 35.2 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
5 Sept 37.2 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
6 Sept 37.0 °C 21 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
7 Sept 35.7 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
8 Sept after 36.0 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
9 Sept after 36.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
10 Sept after 36.9 °C 24 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
11 Sept after 37.0 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Sept after 36.8 °C 26 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Sept after 36.4 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
14 Sept after 35.0 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Sept after 31.4 °C 45 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Sept after 35.2 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Sept after 37.8 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
18 Sept after 36.1 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.8 mm High 33
19 Sept after 36.6 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.3 mm High 32
20 Sept after 35.3 °C 36 % 25 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
21 Sept after 36.0 °C 33 % 33 km/h 1.2 mm High 27

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Aug 2022
After · 14 Sept 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 25 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 135 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 92: 6.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak135 µg/m³
Days over the guideline20 days
PM10192 µg/m³
Optical depth1.80
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 1,238Every 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 10 August 2022 and 7 September 2022: 29 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 10,139 hectares (101.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Maringá (10,180 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 56 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.