Poconé fire, 10 August 2024 Poconé
The fire started on 10 August 2024 in Poconé, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,709 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 484th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 333 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
- Burnt area
- 9,709ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 10days
- 10 Aug 2024 – 19 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 10 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 391
- in a single hotspot: 109 MW
- Danger at start
- 50
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 5.7GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
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: 792 ha in 2019, 18,099 ha in 2020, 3,284 ha in 2022, 6,075 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 9,672 ha that had burned before.
- 10,114 ha Corumbá fire, June 2020 312,925 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,075 ha Barão de Melgaço fire, October 2023 464,290 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,572 ha Poconé fire, March 2020 18,244 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,572 ha Poconé fire, November 2022 9,154 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,047 ha Poconé fire, January 2020 25,289 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 713 ha Poconé fire, December 2022 6,863 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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9,807 ha reached on 3 Aug0.6 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Aug | 35.5 °C | 26 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 4 Aug | 35.7 °C | 25 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 5 Aug | 35.0 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 6 Aug | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 7 Aug | 35.3 °C | 26 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 8 Aug | 25.5 °C | 51 % | 42 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 30 |
| 9 Aug | 16.1 °C | 65 % | 49 km/h | 1.2 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 10 Aug | 21.3 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 11 Aug | 26.5 °C | 24 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 12 Aug | 26.8 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 13 Aug | 27.5 °C | 27 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 14 Aug | 33.2 °C | 19 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 15 Aug | 36.2 °C | 23 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 16 Aug | 35.8 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 17 Aug | 37.0 °C | 24 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 18 Aug | 36.5 °C | 24 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 19 Aug | 36.8 °C | 20 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 20 Aug after | 36.9 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 21 Aug after | 37.3 °C | 21 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 22 Aug after | 37.1 °C | 25 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 23 Aug after | 26.4 °C | 46 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 24 Aug after | 21.2 °C | 59 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 25 Aug after | 18.9 °C | 45 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 26 Aug after | 23.5 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 27 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 25 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 28 Aug after | 35.4 °C | 21 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 29 Aug after | 36.5 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Aug after | 36.2 °C | 25 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 31 Aug after | 35.1 °C | 29 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 8 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 83 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 45: 3.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 391Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 18,244 haPoconéMarch 2020 · 19 days · 5 km away
- 25,289 haPoconé10 January 2020 · 19 days · 11 km away
- 312,925 haCorumbá29 June 2020 · 136 days · 22 km away
- 43,365 haCorumbá11 October 2024 · 16 days · 34 km away
- 12,851 haPoconéNovember 2024 · 12 days · 36 km away
- 13,371 haCorumbá4 April 2020 · 32 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Poconé fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 August 2024 and 19 August 2024: 10 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 9,709 hectares (97.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Poconé (9,807 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.3 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, 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.