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Paranatinga fire, 9 August 2022 Paranatinga

Out · last detection 22 Aug 2022, 17:21 UTC

The fire started on 9 August 2022 in Paranatinga, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,290 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1309th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 375 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

Burnt area
4,290ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
13days
9 Aug 2022 – 21 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
9 Aug
2022
Heat detections
138
in a single hotspot: 125 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
231MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

22 Aug 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Aug21 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

13 Aug 2022 · 102 MW · 8 14 Aug 2022 · 1,664 MW · 91 15 Aug 2022 · 11 MW · 10 16 Aug 2022 · 5 MW · 5 17 Aug 2022 · 75 MW · 3 18 Aug 2022 · 139 MW · 3 19 Aug 2022 · 22 MW · 9 20 Aug 2022 · 17 MW · 2 22 Aug 2022 · 42 MW · 4
13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug 17 Aug 19 Aug 22 Aug

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
43km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,014 ha in 2016, 3,993 ha in 2017, 4,269 ha in 2019, 4,575 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,284 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Paranatinga 26,423 inhabitants where it started
    4,315 ha reached on 13 Aug
    0.2 %

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)
9 Aug 35.7 °C 27 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Aug 28.8 °C 36 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Aug 31.1 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Aug 33.4 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
13 Aug 36.2 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Aug 35.2 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
15 Aug 35.1 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Aug 33.5 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Aug 35.4 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Aug 35.7 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
19 Aug 29.8 °C 36 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Aug 32.3 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
21 Aug 34.1 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
22 Aug after 33.7 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
23 Aug after 33.8 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Aug after 35.8 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Aug after 36.0 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
26 Aug after 35.4 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
27 Aug after 35.8 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
28 Aug after 36.6 °C 17 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
29 Aug after 36.0 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
30 Aug after 35.5 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
31 Aug after 35.7 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
1 Sept after 35.6 °C 21 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
2 Sept after 35.3 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
3 Sept after 35.8 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
4 Sept after 35.4 °C 19 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
5 Sept after 37.5 °C 15 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Aug 2022
After · 28 Aug 2022

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 15 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 64 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak64 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1092 µg/m³
Optical depth0.77
789101112131415161718192021222324
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 · 138Every 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 9 August 2022 and 21 August 2022: 13 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 4,290 hectares (42.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Paranatinga (4,315 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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.