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Puno fire, November 2022 Puno

Out · last detection 13 Nov 2022, 05:33 UTC

The fire started on 12 November 2022 in Puno, Peru, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,228 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Puno since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 7 in Peru in 2022, of 61.

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Burnt area
2,228ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
12 Nov 2022 – 13 Nov 2022
Municipalities hit
1
provinces
Started on
12 Nov
2022
Heat detections
62
in a single hotspot: 147 MW
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
789MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Nov13 Nov
13 Nov 2022

How it evolved, day by day

12 Nov 2022 · 1,564 MW · 58 13 Nov 2022 · 14 MW · 4
12 Nov 13 Nov

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

The weather it burned in

19°high
60km/h · peak gust
2%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.9 mm on 22 Nov.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.4% of the area of London (22 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Puno 24,734 inhabitants where it started
    2,239 ha reached on 12 Nov
    0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020
Built-up area0.91 ha
Residents≈ 80

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.91 hectares of built-up land and about 80 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
12 Nov 19.0 °C 3 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
13 Nov 18.7 °C 2 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
14 Nov after 18.9 °C 7 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
15 Nov after 18.9 °C 14 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Nov after 19.3 °C 13 % 49 km/h 0.2 mm High 38
17 Nov after 19.8 °C 6 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
18 Nov after 20.1 °C 8 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Nov after 20.9 °C 11 % 37 km/h 0.2 mm High 37
20 Nov after 22.9 °C 3 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
21 Nov after 19.7 °C 2 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
22 Nov after 15.8 °C 28 % 35 km/h 2.9 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Nov 2022
After · 20 Nov 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 13 November 2022 the air beside the fire reached 43 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak43 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1062 µg/m³
Optical depth0.22
10111213141516
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 · 62Every 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 Puno fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 November 2022 and 13 November 2022: 2 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 2,228 hectares (22.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Puno (2,239 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 19.0 °C, humidity dropped to 2 % and gusts hit 60 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 Peru (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: 116 · 105 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 62 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.