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Nova Maringá fire, 10 August 2024 Nova Maringá, São José do Rio Claro, Nova Mutum

Out · last detection 11 Sept 2024, 05:06 UTC

The fire started on 10 August 2024 in Nova Maringá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 33 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 22,861 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 165th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 130 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
22,861ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
33days
10 Aug 2024 – 11 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
10 Aug
2024
Heat detections
1,751
in a single hotspot: 554 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
26.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Aug11 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

39°high
47km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 20 Sept.

This area had burned before

88% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 479 ha in 2019, 14,677 ha in 2020, 1,725 ha in 2021, 6,932 ha in 2022, 18,316 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 20,037 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Maringá 5,846 inhabitants where it started
    22,580 ha reached on 10 Aug
    1.9 %
  2. São José do Rio Claro 14,911 inhabitants
    442 ha
    0.1 %
  3. Nova Mutum 55,839 inhabitants
    0 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)
10 Aug 25.3 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Aug 33.3 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
12 Aug 33.1 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Aug 34.8 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Aug 37.5 °C 16 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
15 Aug 37.8 °C 20 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
16 Aug 36.3 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 41
17 Aug 37.2 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Aug 38.3 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
19 Aug 37.7 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Aug 37.4 °C 15 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
21 Aug 37.4 °C 16 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
22 Aug 38.1 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
23 Aug 38.6 °C 17 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
24 Aug 37.5 °C 20 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Aug 27.5 °C 41 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
26 Aug 30.5 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
27 Aug 36.2 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
28 Aug 38.8 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
29 Aug 38.0 °C 15 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
30 Aug 36.5 °C 17 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
31 Aug 37.5 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
1 Sept 38.2 °C 15 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
2 Sept 37.3 °C 17 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
3 Sept 38.4 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
4 Sept 38.8 °C 13 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
5 Sept 38.7 °C 12 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
6 Sept 37.8 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
7 Sept 39.1 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
8 Sept 39.1 °C 13 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
9 Sept 38.8 °C 12 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
10 Sept 38.6 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
11 Sept 38.4 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
12 Sept after 38.5 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
13 Sept after 39.2 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
14 Sept after 38.6 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
15 Sept after 38.4 °C 20 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
16 Sept after 35.8 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Sept after 38.6 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
18 Sept after 39.6 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Sept after 37.3 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
20 Sept after 38.2 °C 23 % 34 km/h 1.8 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Aug 2024
After · 18 Sept 2024

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 4 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 151 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 70: 4.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak151 µg/m³
Days over the guideline29 days
PM10216 µg/m³
Optical depth2.30
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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 · 1,751Every 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 2024 and 11 September 2024: 33 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 22,861 hectares (228.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Nova Maringá (22,580 ha, 1.9 %); São José do Rio Claro (442 ha, 0.1 %); Nova Mutum (0 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.1 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 57, class Extreme.
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.