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Poconé fire, May 2024 Poconé

Out · last detection 23 Jun 2024, 17:38 UTC

The fire started on 31 May 2024 in Poconé, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,427 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 398th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 275 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
11,427ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
23days
31 May 2024 – 22 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
31 May
2024
Heat detections
748
in a single hotspot: 332 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
15.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

23 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 May22 Jun

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
45km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 390 ha in 2016, 12,231 ha in 2020, 2,745 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11,356 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Poconé 31,217 inhabitants where it started
    11,519 ha reached on 29 May
    0.7 %

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)
29 May 24.7 °C 47 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
30 May 28.8 °C 45 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
31 May 31.9 °C 42 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
1 Jun 33.1 °C 33 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Jun 33.9 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Jun 34.2 °C 40 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jun 32.9 °C 34 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
5 Jun 33.4 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
6 Jun 34.2 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
7 Jun 34.2 °C 34 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
8 Jun 34.5 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Jun 34.1 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Jun 34.6 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jun 34.9 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Jun 35.0 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Jun 34.8 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
14 Jun 34.5 °C 35 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Jun 34.8 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Jun 35.4 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Jun 34.9 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Jun 34.8 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Jun 35.0 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Jun 35.1 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Jun 35.4 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
22 Jun 35.0 °C 33 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
23 Jun after 35.2 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jun after 34.6 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
25 Jun after 31.8 °C 48 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jun after 26.6 °C 55 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
27 Jun after 28.2 °C 50 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Jun after 34.3 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
29 Jun after 29.1 °C 51 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun after 21.1 °C 42 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Jul after 26.7 °C 40 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul after 33.9 °C 35 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul after 35.7 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 May 2024
After · 29 Jun 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 25 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 201 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 96: 6.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak201 µg/m³
Days over the guideline9 days
PM10287 µg/m³
Optical depth0.93
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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 · 748Every 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 Poconé fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 31 May 2024 and 22 June 2024: 23 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 11,427 hectares (114.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Poconé (11,519 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.