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Nova Mutum fire, August 2024 Nova Mutum

Out · last detection 18 Sept 2024, 17:08 UTC

The fire started on 30 August 2024 in Nova Mutum, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 19 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,786 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 630th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 420 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
7,786ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
19days
30 Aug 2024 – 17 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
30 Aug
2024
Heat detections
496
in a single hotspot: 311 MW
Danger at start
55
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
9.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Sept 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Aug17 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
46km/h · peak gust
3%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

36% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 658 ha in 2018, 1,021 ha in 2019, 1,945 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,833 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Mutum 55,839 inhabitants where it started
    7,850 ha reached on 30 Aug
    0.8 %

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 Aug 35.7 °C 14 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
31 Aug 36.9 °C 15 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
1 Sept 37.1 °C 7 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
2 Sept 36.8 °C 4 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
3 Sept 37.0 °C 8 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
4 Sept 37.5 °C 7 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
5 Sept 36.3 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
6 Sept 37.2 °C 11 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
7 Sept 37.9 °C 4 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
8 Sept 37.8 °C 4 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
9 Sept 37.7 °C 4 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
10 Sept 37.8 °C 3 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
11 Sept 36.7 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
12 Sept 37.1 °C 9 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
13 Sept 37.5 °C 9 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
14 Sept 37.3 °C 9 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
15 Sept 36.1 °C 20 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
16 Sept 33.0 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
17 Sept 36.8 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
18 Sept after 38.5 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
19 Sept after 35.9 °C 29 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Sept after 37.4 °C 13 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
21 Sept after 38.9 °C 5 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
22 Sept after 38.8 °C 8 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
23 Sept after 38.6 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
24 Sept after 38.6 °C 15 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
25 Sept after 38.4 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
26 Sept after 38.1 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 52
27 Sept after 31.3 °C 46 % 40 km/h 0.4 mm High 36
28 Sept after 35.6 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
29 Sept after 35.7 °C 29 % 30 km/h 0.5 mm High 35
30 Sept after 32.7 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm High 36
1 Oct after 36.5 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 37
2 Oct after 36.1 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
3 Oct after 36.7 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Oct after 36.8 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Aug 2024
After · 24 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 23 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 137 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 74: 4.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak137 µg/m³
Days over the guideline23 days
PM10200 µg/m³
Optical depth2.97
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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 · 496Every 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 30 August 2024 and 17 September 2024: 19 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 7,786 hectares (77.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Mutum (7,850 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 3 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 67, 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.