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Poconé fire, 13 June 2024 Poconé

Out · last detection 7 Jul 2024, 05:44 UTC

The fire started on 13 June 2024 in Poconé, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,211 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1023th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 644 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

Burnt area
5,211ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
24days
13 Jun 2024 – 6 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
13 Jun
2024
Heat detections
240
in a single hotspot: 142 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
2.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Jul 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jun6 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

36°high
47km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,396 ha in 2019, 6,043 ha in 2020, 2,386 ha in 2022, 4,041 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,233 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Poconé 31,217 inhabitants where it started
    5,261 ha reached on 7 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)
7 Jun 34.3 °C 33 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Jun 34.6 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
9 Jun 34.2 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
10 Jun 34.6 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
11 Jun 35.1 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Jun 35.0 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Jun 34.9 °C 31 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Jun 34.5 °C 34 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Jun 34.8 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Jun 35.4 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Jun 34.9 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
18 Jun 34.8 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
19 Jun 35.1 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
20 Jun 35.2 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jun 35.4 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Jun 35.2 °C 32 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
23 Jun 35.3 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jun 34.5 °C 39 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Jun 31.2 °C 49 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jun 26.1 °C 54 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
27 Jun 28.2 °C 49 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
28 Jun 34.1 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
29 Jun 28.3 °C 52 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun 20.9 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Jul 26.7 °C 39 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul 33.9 °C 35 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul 35.5 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Jul 34.4 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Jul 35.6 °C 25 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Jul 27.3 °C 43 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
7 Jul after 27.7 °C 43 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Jul after 20.1 °C 55 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
9 Jul after 18.2 °C 60 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
10 Jul after 21.4 °C 54 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
11 Jul after 28.9 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Jul after 17.3 °C 60 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
13 Jul after 19.8 °C 43 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
14 Jul after 22.0 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
15 Jul after 24.9 °C 41 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Jul after 29.1 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jun 2024
After · 13 Jul 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 121 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 64: 4.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak121 µg/m³
Days over the guideline16 days
PM10172 µg/m³
Optical depth0.91
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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 · 240Every 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 13 June 2024 and 6 July 2024: 24 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 5,211 hectares (52.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Poconé (5,261 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.6 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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.