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Roboré fire, June 2021 Roboré

Out · last detection 2 Jul 2021, 17:19 UTC

The fire started on 21 June 2021 in Roboré, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,694 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 474th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 92 in Bolivia in 2021, of 155.

Burnt area
4,694ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
21 Jun 2021 – 1 Jul 2021
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
21 Jun
2021
Heat detections
309
in a single hotspot: 100 MW
Danger at start
13
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
1.8GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Jul 2021
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jun1 Jul

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

33°high
54km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 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. Roboré 18,763 inhabitants where it started
    4,711 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)
21 Jun 28.3 °C 55 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
22 Jun 27.5 °C 57 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 12
23 Jun 30.7 °C 53 % 54 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
24 Jun 32.0 °C 43 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
25 Jun 32.6 °C 37 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
26 Jun 33.3 °C 33 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
27 Jun 21.5 °C 68 % 50 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun 12.0 °C 47 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
29 Jun 15.1 °C 40 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
30 Jun 20.7 °C 32 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
1 Jul 25.3 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Jul after 29.3 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul after 29.0 °C 37 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jul after 31.4 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
5 Jul after 31.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
6 Jul after 30.3 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
7 Jul after 32.4 °C 31 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jul after 32.2 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Jul after 32.9 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
10 Jul after 33.1 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
11 Jul after 32.5 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jun 2021
After · 8 Jul 2021

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 · 309Every 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 Roboré fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 June 2021 and 1 July 2021: 11 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 4,694 hectares (46.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Roboré (4,711 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.