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Roboré fire, June 2022 Roboré

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2022, 18:34 UTC

The fire started on 21 June 2022 in Roboré, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,653 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 632th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 167 in Bolivia in 2022, of 222.

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Burnt area
3,653ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
21 Jun 2022 – 1 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
21 Jun
2022
Heat detections
173
in a single hotspot: 56 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
102MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jun1 Jul
1 Jul 2022

How it evolved, day by day

21 Jun 2022 · 35 MW · 9 22 Jun 2022 · 44 MW · 12 23 Jun 2022 · 267 MW · 21 24 Jun 2022 · 113 MW · 22 25 Jun 2022 · 158 MW · 24 26 Jun 2022 · 8 MW · 5 27 Jun 2022 · 48 MW · 2 29 Jun 2022 · 167 MW · 33 30 Jun 2022 · 58 MW · 18 1 Jul 2022 · 125 MW · 27
21 Jun 23 Jun 25 Jun 27 Jun 30 Jun

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
53km/h · peak gust
41%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,659 ha in 2017, 785 ha in 2018, 169 ha in 2019, 966 ha in 2020, 2,034 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,148 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.3% of the area of London (37 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. Roboré 18,763 inhabitants where it started
    3,666 ha
    0.5 %

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 31.4 °C 49 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
22 Jun 32.2 °C 45 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
23 Jun 31.9 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
24 Jun 32.3 °C 41 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jun 23.1 °C 61 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
26 Jun 24.1 °C 52 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
27 Jun 29.7 °C 46 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
28 Jun 30.8 °C 45 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
29 Jun 27.0 °C 57 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
30 Jun 30.2 °C 49 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
1 Jul 31.3 °C 42 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Jul after 32.0 °C 41 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
3 Jul after 32.0 °C 43 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Jul after 33.3 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
5 Jul after 33.3 °C 44 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
6 Jul after 33.1 °C 38 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Jul after 33.1 °C 37 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
8 Jul after 33.1 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
9 Jul after 33.0 °C 37 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Jul after 33.7 °C 38 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Jul after 33.5 °C 42 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jun 2022
After · 8 Jul 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.

Detections table · 173Every 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 2022 and 1 July 2022: 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 3,653 hectares (36.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Roboré (3,666 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.3 °C, humidity dropped to 41 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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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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. 173 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.

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 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.