Burned area
satellite only6,533ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 29 May 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
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BO · Bolivia · –
San José fire, May 2024 San José
Out · last detection 4 Jul 2024, 17:32 UTC
The fire started on 29 May 2024 in San José, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 37 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,533 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 315th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 784 with a page). Number 123 in Bolivia in 2024, of 295.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only37days
29 May 2024 to 4 Jul 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 4 Jul 2024, 17:32 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only29 May 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 29 May 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only563
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 292 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 29 May 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,303MW
Total radiative power on 8 June 2024; hotspots that day: 27.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 8 Jun 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model13.2FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 4.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 29 May 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model34.6°C · 34% RH
High of 34.6 °C and minimum humidity of 34% on 12 June 2024; gusts of 64 km/h on 14 June 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 29 May 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logStart date: 4 June 2024 → 29 May 2024.
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What was saved on 5 November 2026
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- Area
- 6,533 ha
- Dates
- 29 May 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
- Name
- San José
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/san-jose-2024-05?v=2026-11-05A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire san-jose-2024-05.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-29 | 2 | 49 | 25.2 | 10 | 40 | 9.4 | 22.7 | 0 | 13.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 16 | 72 | 28.2 | 12.9 | 39 | 9.2 | 22 | 0 | 15.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-05-31 | 44 | 603 | 32 | 15.2 | 37 | 12.8 | 30.6 | 0 | 22.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 7 | 36 | 32.1 | 16.8 | 33 | 17 | 40.7 | 0 | 27 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-02 | 13 | 90 | 33.2 | 16.8 | 29 | 20.2 | 46.4 | 0 | 35.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-03 | 15 | 422 | 32.5 | 19.9 | 47 | 12.5 | 21.2 | 0 | 18.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-06-04 | 25 | 128 | 31.2 | 18.3 | 42 | 13.8 | 32 | 0 | 21.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-05 | 12 | 33 | 32.4 | 18.4 | 36 | 12.8 | 35.3 | 0 | 27.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-06 | 21 | 96 | 33.4 | 18.2 | 31 | 15.5 | 38.5 | 0 | 33.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-07 | 35 | 183 | 34 | 17.2 | 32 | 13 | 33.5 | 0 | 30.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-08 | 27 | 1,303 | 33.3 | 18.6 | 32 | 18.4 | 44.6 | 0 | 36.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-09 | 26 | 75 | 32.6 | 19.7 | 31 | 23.4 | 54 | 0 | 46.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-10 | 8 | 81 | 33.4 | 21.4 | 38 | 19.2 | 46.8 | 0 | 41.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-11 | 6 | 19 | 34.4 | 20 | 38 | 17.6 | 43.6 | 0 | 37.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 29 | 195 | 34.6 | 21.9 | 34 | 18.8 | 45 | 0 | 41.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 10 | 24 | 33.7 | 21.4 | 33 | 25.6 | 59 | 0 | 51.5 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-06-14 | 8 | 22 | 33 | 24.3 | 41 | 31.1 | 64.4 | 0 | 57.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-06-15 | 5 | 18 | 32.5 | 24.6 | 44 | 19.5 | 50.8 | 0 | 39.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-16 | 4 | 12 | 32.4 | 21.8 | 40 | 15.5 | 34.2 | 0 | 31.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-17 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 21.6 | 47 | 17.1 | 40.7 | 0 | 31.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 20 | 59 | 33.6 | 22.3 | 40 | 27.1 | 62.3 | 0 | 51.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-06-19 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 23.4 | 39 | 23.7 | 54 | 0 | 44.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 26 | 101 | 34.3 | 22.3 | 41 | 11.8 | 32.8 | 0 | 30.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-21 | 13 | 36 | 34.5 | 21.5 | 36 | 22.5 | 49.3 | 0 | 43.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-22 | 7 | 26 | 34 | 23.9 | 34 | 27.2 | 60.5 | 0 | 56 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-06-23 | 1 | 0 | 33.9 | 23.9 | 36 | 23.2 | 53.3 | 0 | 50.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 20.8 | 43 | 16.6 | 42.8 | 0 | 40.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 94 | 744 | 27.7 | 15.4 | 49 | 12.3 | 25.2 | 0 | 18.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-06-26 | 47 | 132 | 22.9 | 12.8 | 54 | 13.7 | 29.5 | 0 | 21.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-27 | 15 | 112 | 28.7 | 15.3 | 46 | 12.9 | 29.2 | 0 | 22.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-28 | 15 | 70 | 32.6 | 18.1 | 39 | 25.5 | 55.1 | 0 | 39.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-29 | 8 | 11 | 23.2 | 15.7 | 47 | 19.4 | 41.8 | 1 | 21.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-30 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 | 12.3 | 37 | 14.8 | 33.5 | 0.1 | 16.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 29.2 | 12.8 | 40 | 11.3 | 20.2 | 0 | 19.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-07-02 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 14.7 | 30 | 15.2 | 35.6 | 0 | 32.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-03 | 1 | 2 | 34.5 | 18 | 28 | 15.7 | 36.7 | 0 | 40.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-04 | 2 | 4 | 34.4 | 19.1 | 32 | 18.2 | 46.4 | 0 | 40.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-05 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 20.6 | 39 | 17.9 | 35.6 | 0 | 28.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 14.5 | 41 | 17.5 | 37.1 | 0 | 26.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-07 | 0 | 0 | 19.8 | 15.1 | 48 | 15.7 | 35.6 | 0 | 29.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-08 | 0 | 0 | 16.5 | 10.4 | 45 | 15.8 | 37.1 | 0.2 | 29.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-09 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 9.6 | 62 | 13.1 | 28.1 | 0.4 | 19.3 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-07-10 | 0 | 0 | 17.9 | 10.7 | 54 | 9.4 | 21.6 | 0.1 | 15.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-07-11 | 0 | 0 | 22.9 | 13.3 | 49 | 19.4 | 38.5 | 0.1 | 17.4 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-07-12 | 0 | 0 | 15.4 | 9.5 | 54 | 20.5 | 46.1 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 19.3 | 8.1 | 35 | 16.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 28.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-14 | 0 | 0 | 21.3 | 9 | 37 | 15.3 | 32.8 | 0 | 28.6 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 6,533ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 37days
- 29 May 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 29 May
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 563
- in a single hotspot: 292 MW
- Danger at start
- 13
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 149MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
29 May4 Jul
4 Jul 2024
How it evolved, day by day
29 May
8 Jun
21 Jun
29 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 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
77% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 104 ha in 2017, 1,869 ha in 2018, 367 ha in 2019, 720 ha in 2020, 2,315 ha in 2022, 4,321 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,021 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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6,570 ha reached on 29 May0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May | 25.2 °C | 40 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 30 May | 28.2 °C | 39 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 31 May | 32.0 °C | 37 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 1 Jun | 32.1 °C | 33 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 2 Jun | 33.2 °C | 29 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 3 Jun | 32.5 °C | 47 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 4 Jun | 31.2 °C | 42 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 5 Jun | 32.4 °C | 36 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 6 Jun | 33.4 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 7 Jun | 34.0 °C | 32 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 8 Jun | 33.3 °C | 32 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 9 Jun | 32.6 °C | 31 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 10 Jun | 33.4 °C | 38 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 11 Jun | 34.4 °C | 38 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 12 Jun | 34.6 °C | 34 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 13 Jun | 33.7 °C | 33 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 14 Jun | 33.0 °C | 41 % | 64 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 15 Jun | 32.5 °C | 44 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 16 Jun | 32.4 °C | 40 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 17 Jun | 32.0 °C | 47 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 18 Jun | 33.6 °C | 40 % | 62 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 19 Jun | 34.1 °C | 39 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 20 Jun | 34.3 °C | 41 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 21 Jun | 34.5 °C | 36 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 22 Jun | 34.0 °C | 34 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 23 Jun | 33.9 °C | 36 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 24 Jun | 33.0 °C | 43 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Jun | 27.7 °C | 49 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 26 Jun | 22.9 °C | 54 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 27 Jun | 28.7 °C | 46 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 28 Jun | 32.6 °C | 39 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 29 Jun | 23.2 °C | 47 % | 42 km/h | 1.0 mm | High 22 |
| 30 Jun | 15.5 °C | 37 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 1 Jul | 29.2 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 2 Jul | 33.2 °C | 30 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 3 Jul | 34.5 °C | 28 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 4 Jul | 34.4 °C | 32 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 5 Jul after | 32.1 °C | 39 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 6 Jul after | 23.0 °C | 41 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 7 Jul after | 19.8 °C | 48 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 8 Jul after | 16.5 °C | 45 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 30 |
| 9 Jul after | 15.0 °C | 62 % | 28 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 10 Jul after | 17.9 °C | 54 % | 22 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 11 Jul after | 22.9 °C | 49 % | 38 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 12 Jul after | 15.4 °C | 54 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 13 Jul after | 19.3 °C | 35 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 14 Jul after | 21.3 °C | 37 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 13.2, a minimum humidity of 40% and 4 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 34.
FWI at the start
13.2
Minimum humidity
40 %
Days without rain
4
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · San José fire, May 2024
6,533 ha
37 days
FWI 13.2
Min. humidity 40 %
San Matías fire, September 2018
3,387 ha
3 days
FWI 13.8
Min. humidity 40 %
224 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.1 mm on 24 Sept.
San José fire, July 2016
7,562 ha
30 days
FWI 13.0
Min. humidity 43 %
26 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.8 mm on 9 Aug.
San José fire, October 2016
3,102 ha
17 days
FWI 8.4
Min. humidity 40 %
13 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.7 mm on 25 Oct.
San José fire, August 2018
22,296 ha
22 days
FWI 14.9
Min. humidity 38 %
67 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 14 Sept.
Bahía Negra fire, April 2016
1,941 ha
7 days
FWI 11.9
Min. humidity 40 %
250 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.0 mm on 7 May.
What happened to them
- 14 days
- median duration
- 4,305 ha
- median area
- 18 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 2.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 30 of 34 had it)
It was 1.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 37 days, against 14 days.
Only 9 of its 34 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 4 of 34, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.8 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
64km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 4 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 30 of 34, with a median of 2.8 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 22 May 2024
After · 11 Jul 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 26 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 86 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 44: 2.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak86 µg/m³
Days over the guideline11 days
PM10122 µg/m³
Optical depth0.77
WHO 15
2 Jun9 Jun16 Jun23 Jun30 Jun
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 · 563Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 8,853 haSan José12 July 2025 · 21 days · 0 km away
- 10,537 haSan JoséSeptember 2022 · 11 days · 13 km away
- 7,392 haSan José17 August 2019 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 7,562 haSan José8 July 2016 · 30 days · 26 km away
- 11,650 haSan José15 November 2023 · 8 days · 28 km away
- 26,714 haSan José17 August 2021 · 8 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the San José fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 May 2024 to 4 July 2024 (37 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 June 2024 to 29 June 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,533 hectares (65.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered San José (6,570 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 57, class Extreme.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 34. Their median duration was 14 days and their median area 4,305 ha; 18 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 9 of its 34 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 4 of 34, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.8 mm.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 4 June 2024 → 29 May 2024.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 4 June 2024 to 29 June 2024. 563 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.
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.