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Pol-e-Dokhtar fire, June 2016 Pol-e-Dokhtar

Out · last detection 16 Jun 2016, 22:08 UTC

The fire started on 13 June 2016 in Pol-e-Dokhtar, Iran, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,148 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 2th largest in Lorestan since 2016 (of 15 with a page). Number 6 in Iran in 2016, of 21.

Burnt area
2,148ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
13 Jun 2016 – 16 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
13 Jun
2016
Heat detections
71
in a single hotspot: 58 MW
Danger at start
51
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
344MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

16 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jun16 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

13141516

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
55km/h · peak gust
6%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 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. Pol-e-Dokhtar where it started
    2,152 ha
    0.6 %

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)
13 Jun 30.0 °C 14 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
14 Jun 33.3 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
15 Jun 35.5 °C 6 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
16 Jun 33.4 °C 9 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
17 Jun after 30.1 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
18 Jun after 31.7 °C 13 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
19 Jun after 33.2 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
20 Jun after 35.2 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
21 Jun after 36.3 °C 7 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
22 Jun after 36.5 °C 10 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
23 Jun after 35.6 °C 13 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
24 Jun after 36.1 °C 14 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Jun after 37.4 °C 11 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
26 Jun after 38.5 °C 9 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jun 2016
After · 23 Jun 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 · 71Every 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 Pol-e-Dokhtar fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 13 June 2016 and 16 June 2016: 4 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 2,148 hectares (21.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Pol-e-Dokhtar (2,152 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (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: 125

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.