How long did the Roboré fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 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 3,233 hectares (32.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Roboré (3,249 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.

BO · Bolivia · 2024-06-05 → 2024-06-14

Roboré fire, 5 June 2024 Roboré

Out · last detection 14 Jun 2024, 17:06 UTC

The fire started on 5 June 2024 in Roboré, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,233 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 751th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 265 in Bolivia in 2024, of 295.

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Burnt area: 3,233ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 10days; 5 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 5 Jun; 2024
Heat detections: 228; in a single hotspot: 251 MW
Danger at start: 25; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 535MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Jun14 Jun

Play back 14 Jun 2024

How it evolved, day by day

5 Jun 7 Jun 9 Jun 11 Jun 13 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

35°high

64km/h · peak gust

28%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 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.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2% of the area of London (32 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

Roboré 18,763 inhabitants where it started

3,249 ha

0.4 %

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	Danger (FWI)
5 Jun	33.1 °C	34 %	34 km/h	High 25
6 Jun	33.9 °C	32 %	39 km/h	High 30
7 Jun	34.6 °C	32 %	37 km/h	High 30
8 Jun	34.3 °C	30 %	44 km/h	High 34
9 Jun	33.7 °C	28 %	57 km/h	Very high 41
10 Jun	34.1 °C	36 %	47 km/h	High 37
11 Jun	35.4 °C	35 %	40 km/h	High 35
12 Jun	35.2 °C	31 %	45 km/h	High 38
13 Jun	34.8 °C	29 %	58 km/h	Very high 44
14 Jun	33.8 °C	41 %	64 km/h	Very high 43
15 Jun after	33.5 °C	41 %	57 km/h	High 36
16 Jun after	33.3 °C	39 %	40 km/h	High 33
17 Jun after	33.0 °C	47 %	40 km/h	High 30
18 Jun after	34.4 °C	38 %	53 km/h	High 36
19 Jun after	35.5 °C	37 %	53 km/h	High 38
20 Jun after	35.6 °C	36 %	30 km/h	High 30
21 Jun after	35.2 °C	31 %	50 km/h	Very high 41
22 Jun after	34.8 °C	33 %	62 km/h	Very high 47
23 Jun after	34.7 °C	34 %	54 km/h	Very high 43
24 Jun after	34.6 °C	37 %	39 km/h	High 36

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 29 May 2024

After · 21 Jun 2024

Before After

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 6 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 26 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak26 µg/m³

Days over the guideline1 day

PM1037 µg/m³

Optical depth0.71

WHO 15

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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 228Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Roboré fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 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 3,233 hectares (32.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Roboré (3,249 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.4 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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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Satellite cross-check

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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. 228 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.

Where it burned