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Nova Maringá fire, 11 August 2024 Nova Maringá, São José do Rio Claro

Out · last detection 9 Sept 2024, 16:37 UTC

The fire started on 11 August 2024 in Nova Maringá, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 29 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 16,767 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 232th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 174 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
16,767ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
29days
11 Aug 2024 – 8 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
11 Aug
2024
Heat detections
1,004
in a single hotspot: 121 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
11.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Aug8 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
50km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 540 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Maringá 5,846 inhabitants where it started
    16,862 ha reached on 8 Aug
    1.4 %
  2. São José do Rio Claro 14,911 inhabitants
    52 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)
8 Aug 34.9 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
9 Aug 24.4 °C 54 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Aug 26.3 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
11 Aug 32.3 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
12 Aug 30.7 °C 20 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Aug 33.3 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Aug 35.9 °C 18 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
15 Aug 36.2 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Aug 35.0 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
17 Aug 35.9 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
18 Aug 37.2 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
19 Aug 36.2 °C 20 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Aug 36.6 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
21 Aug 36.4 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Aug 36.9 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
23 Aug 37.2 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Aug 34.2 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
25 Aug 24.6 °C 48 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
26 Aug 29.0 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
27 Aug 34.8 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
28 Aug 37.1 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
29 Aug 37.0 °C 20 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
30 Aug 36.0 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
31 Aug 37.1 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Sept 37.0 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Sept 36.8 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Sept 37.4 °C 20 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Sept 37.3 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
5 Sept 35.6 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
6 Sept 37.2 °C 14 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
7 Sept 37.7 °C 14 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
8 Sept 38.0 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
9 Sept after 38.2 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
10 Sept after 37.5 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
11 Sept after 36.7 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
12 Sept after 37.3 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Sept after 36.8 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Sept after 37.0 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Sept after 34.2 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Sept after 32.8 °C 39 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
17 Sept after 36.8 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Sept after 38.2 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Sept after 35.2 °C 35 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Sept after 36.7 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
21 Sept after 38.7 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Sept after 38.0 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
23 Sept after 38.2 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Aug 2024
After · 15 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 3 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 148 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 116: 7.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak148 µg/m³
Days over the guideline26 days
PM10211 µg/m³
Optical depth2.15
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 1,004Every 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 11 August 2024 and 8 September 2024: 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 16,767 hectares (167.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nova Maringá (16,862 ha, 1.4 %); São José do Rio Claro (52 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, 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.