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Reyes fire, September 2017 Reyes

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2017, 06:09 UTC

The fire started on 3 September 2017 in Reyes, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,691 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 199th largest in Beni since 2016 (of 902 with a page). Number 22 in Bolivia in 2017, of 123.

Burnt area
8,691ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
3 Sept 2017 – 10 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
3 Sept
2017
Heat detections
182
in a single hotspot: 175 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
2.7GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Sept 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Sept10 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

37°high
42km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.9 mm on 12 Sept.

This area had burned before

3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 220 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Reyes 11,478 inhabitants where it started
    8,713 ha
    0.7 %

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)
2 Sept 35.7 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
3 Sept 36.7 °C 47 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 17
4 Sept 36.7 °C 46 % 24 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 18
5 Sept 34.6 °C 47 % 32 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 14
6 Sept 33.4 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
7 Sept 36.2 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
8 Sept 35.2 °C 43 % 28 km/h 0.4 mm High 22
9 Sept 35.5 °C 47 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm High 23
10 Sept 36.9 °C 43 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
11 Sept after 34.3 °C 53 % 32 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 16
12 Sept after 26.9 °C 77 % 28 km/h 15.9 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Aug 2017
After · 17 Sept 2017

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 · 182Every 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 Reyes fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 3 September 2017 and 10 September 2017: 8 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 8,691 hectares (86.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Reyes (8,713 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.9 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bolivia (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: 119 · 110

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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 ADM3 (Public Domain). 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.