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Roboré fire, 4 June 2024 Roboré

Out · last detection 3 Jul 2024, 17:50 UTC

The fire started on 4 June 2024 in Roboré, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 29 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,750 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 610th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 226 in Bolivia in 2024, of 295.

Burnt area
3,750ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
29days
4 Jun 2024 – 2 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
4 Jun
2024
Heat detections
355
in a single hotspot: 76 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Energy released
3.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

3 Jul 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Jun2 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

36°high
64km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 306 ha in 2018, 893 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Roboré 18,763 inhabitants where it started
    3,769 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)
4 Jun 31.9 °C 43 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jun 33.1 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
6 Jun 33.8 °C 32 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Jun 34.6 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jun 34.3 °C 30 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
9 Jun 33.7 °C 28 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Jun 34.1 °C 36 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Jun 35.4 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
12 Jun 35.1 °C 31 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
13 Jun 34.8 °C 29 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Jun 33.8 °C 41 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
15 Jun 33.5 °C 41 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Jun 33.3 °C 39 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Jun 33.0 °C 47 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Jun 34.4 °C 38 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Jun 35.4 °C 37 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
20 Jun 35.5 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
21 Jun 35.1 °C 31 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
22 Jun 34.7 °C 33 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
23 Jun 34.6 °C 34 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
24 Jun 34.5 °C 37 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jun 28.4 °C 49 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jun 21.5 °C 59 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
27 Jun 29.6 °C 45 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
28 Jun 33.4 °C 36 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Jun 24.0 °C 50 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun 16.2 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Jul 29.9 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Jul 34.0 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jul after 35.3 °C 25 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
4 Jul after 35.6 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
5 Jul after 33.3 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
6 Jul after 24.3 °C 42 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Jul after 19.5 °C 51 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Jul after 15.6 °C 54 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
9 Jul after 15.3 °C 65 % 30 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 16
10 Jul after 18.5 °C 53 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 Jul after 23.9 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Jul after 16.3 °C 56 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 May 2024
After · 9 Jul 2024

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 29 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 44 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak44 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM1063 µg/m³
Optical depth0.71
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 355Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Roboré fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 4 June 2024 and 2 July 2024: 29 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 3,750 hectares (37.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Roboré (3,769 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.