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Ramón Lista fire, September 2016 Ramón Lista

Out · last detection 19 Sept 2016, 18:15 UTC

The fire started on 9 September 2016 in Ramón Lista, Argentina, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,044 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 48th largest in Formosa since 2016 (of 620 with a page). Number 28 in Argentina in 2016, of 255.

Burnt area
6,044ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
9 Sept 2016 – 18 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
1
departments
Started on
9 Sept
2016
Heat detections
317
in a single hotspot: 209 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Energy released
5.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Sept18 Sept

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

43°high
68km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.6 mm on 23 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Ramón Lista where it started
    6,078 ha reached on 9 Sept
    1.6 %

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)
9 Sept 32.1 °C 15 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
10 Sept 36.4 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Sept 40.0 °C 17 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
12 Sept 42.8 °C 10 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
13 Sept 31.5 °C 20 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
14 Sept 27.3 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Sept 30.7 °C 21 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 Sept 33.9 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
17 Sept 40.0 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
18 Sept 36.2 °C 33 % 48 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 44
19 Sept after 27.3 °C 35 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Sept after 29.5 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
21 Sept after 32.9 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
22 Sept after 38.1 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Sept after 27.7 °C 49 % 34 km/h 13.6 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Sept 2016
After · 25 Sept 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 · 317Every 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 Ramón Lista fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 September 2016 and 18 September 2016: 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 6,044 hectares (60.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ramón Lista (6,078 ha, 1.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 42.8 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 68 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 71, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Argentina (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.

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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.