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Nova Mutum fire, June 2019 Nova Mutum, Nobres

Out · last detection 17 Jul 2019, 17:45 UTC

The fire started on 6 June 2019 in Nova Mutum, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 42 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,172 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1035th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 446 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

Burnt area
5,172ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
42days
6 Jun 2019 – 17 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
6 Jun
2019
Heat detections
1,152
in a single hotspot: 512 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
22.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jul 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jun17 Jul

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

35°high
48km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,028 ha in 2018.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Mutum 55,839 inhabitants where it started
    5,063 ha reached on 30 May
    0.5 %
  2. Nobres 15,492 inhabitants
    153 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)
30 May 33.9 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 May 33.6 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
1 Jun 34.8 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Jun 34.6 °C 32 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jun 28.1 °C 60 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Jun 27.5 °C 57 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
5 Jun 31.3 °C 48 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
6 Jun 32.6 °C 40 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Jun 31.5 °C 40 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Jun 32.4 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
9 Jun 32.8 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
10 Jun 32.9 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Jun 33.2 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Jun 32.7 °C 35 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
13 Jun 33.1 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Jun 32.6 °C 40 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Jun 33.6 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Jun 32.4 °C 37 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Jun 32.5 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Jun 32.3 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Jun 33.9 °C 38 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jun 32.7 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
21 Jun 33.3 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Jun 32.8 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Jun 31.7 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
24 Jun 31.5 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jun 32.7 °C 28 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
26 Jun 30.6 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Jun 33.9 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Jun 33.6 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jun 32.7 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
30 Jun 33.3 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
1 Jul 33.9 °C 35 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
2 Jul 33.7 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jul 33.4 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Jul 34.0 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Jul 26.9 °C 65 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
6 Jul 24.8 °C 47 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 Jul 27.8 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
8 Jul 32.1 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
9 Jul 33.3 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Jul 33.5 °C 28 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jul 32.3 °C 28 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
12 Jul 32.5 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Jul 33.5 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Jul 34.2 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Jul 34.4 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jul 32.3 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Jul 33.3 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
18 Jul after 34.3 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Jul after 33.8 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Jul after 32.5 °C 36 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
21 Jul after 31.0 °C 34 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Jul after 32.4 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
23 Jul after 32.9 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Jul after 32.1 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jul after 26.5 °C 48 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jul after 28.0 °C 47 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
27 Jul after 29.5 °C 44 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 May 2019
After · 24 Jul 2019

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 · 1,152Every 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 Mutum fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 June 2019 and 17 July 2019: 42 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 5,172 hectares (51.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Nova Mutum (5,063 ha, 0.5 %); Nobres (153 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.