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Paranatinga fire, June 2016 Paranatinga

Out · last detection 4 Jul 2016, 17:21 UTC

The fire started on 25 June 2016 in Paranatinga, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,163 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 837th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 201 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

Burnt area
6,163ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
25 Jun 2016 – 3 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
25 Jun
2016
Heat detections
250
in a single hotspot: 103 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

4 Jul 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Jun3 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

32°high
37km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity

It had gone 34 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Paranatinga 26,423 inhabitants where it started
    6,217 ha reached on 25 Jun
    0.3 %

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)
24 Jun 31.8 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Jun 31.6 °C 38 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Jun 30.6 °C 38 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Jun 29.6 °C 38 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
28 Jun 28.3 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jun 29.5 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun 30.1 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Jul 30.3 °C 39 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
2 Jul 30.4 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Jul 30.6 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Jul after 30.7 °C 37 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Jul after 31.4 °C 36 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
6 Jul after 30.7 °C 37 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Jul after 30.2 °C 38 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
8 Jul after 31.9 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Jul after 33.9 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
10 Jul after 33.5 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
11 Jul after 33.3 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
12 Jul after 32.6 °C 35 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
13 Jul after 33.1 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
14 Jul after 32.7 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jun 2016
After · 10 Jul 2016

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 · 250Every 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 Paranatinga fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 25 June 2016 and 3 July 2016: 9 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 6,163 hectares (61.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Paranatinga (6,217 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.8 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class 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.