Quiindy fire, January 2022 Caapucu, Quiindy
The fire started on 19 January 2022 in Quiindy, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,764 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 44th largest in Paraguarí since 2016 (of 68 with a page). Number 146 in Paraguay in 2022, of 185.
- Burnt area
- 1,764ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 19 Jan 2022 – 24 Jan 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 19 Jan
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 149
- in a single hotspot: 44 MW
- Danger at start
- 41
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 209MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.5 mm on 26 Jan.
This area had burned before
93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 186 ha in 2017, 554 ha in 2019, 2,091 ha in 2020, 303 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,644 ha that had burned before.
- 1,152 ha Caapucu fire, October 2020 1,603 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 242 ha Quiindy fire, July 2021 1,681 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 237 ha Caapucu fire, June 2020 2,010 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 191 ha Villa Oliva fire, July 2020 21,230 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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1,025 ha reached on 17 Jan0.4 %
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Quiindy where it started745 ha reached on 14 Jan1.1 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan | 40.1 °C | 31 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 20 Jan | 39.0 °C | 34 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 35 |
| 21 Jan | 40.1 °C | 27 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 22 Jan | 40.2 °C | 27 % | 57 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 23 Jan | 41.0 °C | 27 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 24 Jan | 41.2 °C | 29 % | 28 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 42 |
| 25 Jan after | 40.1 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 26 Jan after | 39.5 °C | 34 % | 42 km/h | 6.5 mm | Moderate 18 |
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.
Detections table · 149Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 16,508 haVilla OlivaFebruary 2022 · 29 days · 9 km away
- 21,230 haVilla OlivaJuly 2020 · 14 days · 13 km away
- 7,903 haVilla Oliva28 August 2018 · 3 days · 18 km away
- 13,060 haVilla OlivaFebruary 2020 · 19 days · 22 km away
- 22,209 haVilleta20 August 2020 · 13 days · 24 km away
- 58,707 haVilla OlivaDecember 2021 · 44 days · 25 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Quiindy fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 19 January 2022 and 24 January 2022: 6 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 1,764 hectares (17.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Caapucu (1,025 ha, 0.4 %); Quiindy (745 ha, 1.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 41.2 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 57 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Extreme.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (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: 132 · 911
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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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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.