Burned area
satellite only5,503ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 10 Sept 2022 – 1 Oct 2022
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BO · Bolivia · –
San Miguel fire, 10 September 2022 San Miguel
Out · last detection 1 Oct 2022, 05:39 UTC
The fire started on 10 September 2022 in San Miguel, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,503 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 383th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 784 with a page). Number 100 in Bolivia in 2022, of 222.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only22days
10 Sept 2022 to 1 Oct 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 1 Oct 2022, 05:39 UTC
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Start
satellite only10 Sept 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 10 Sept 2022
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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 only388
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 146 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 10 Sept 2022 – 1 Oct 2022
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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 only996MW
Total radiative power on 13 September 2022; hotspots that day: 70.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Sept 2022
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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
model32.3FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 22.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 10 Sept 2022, 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
model35.3°C · 38% RH
High of 35.3 °C and minimum humidity of 38% on 26 September 2022; gusts of 56 km/h on 19 September 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 10 Sept 2022 – 1 Oct 2022
- 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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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 5,503 ha
- Dates
- 10 Sept 2022 – 1 Oct 2022
- Name
- San Miguel
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/san-miguel-2022-09?v=2026-10-24A 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-miguel-2022-09.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-10 | 3 | 9 | 26.5 | 19.3 | 35 | 20.4 | 47.5 | 0 | 32.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-11 | 40 | 644 | 31.4 | 17.1 | 37 | 12.7 | 34.2 | 0 | 27.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-12 | 4 | 19 | 32.7 | 19.8 | 36 | 11.7 | 37.8 | 0 | 28.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-13 | 70 | 996 | 32.7 | 21.7 | 39 | 10.3 | 28.8 | 0.1 | 23.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 22.9 | 17.9 | 38 | 21.4 | 50 | 0.4 | 34.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-15 | 46 | 568 | 24.6 | 17.2 | 39 | 16.5 | 39.2 | 0.7 | 30.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-16 | 49 | 379 | 31 | 16.1 | 36 | 8.5 | 21.6 | 0 | 21.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-17 | 43 | 679 | 34 | 17.4 | 30 | 13.5 | 36 | 0 | 34.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-18 | 32 | 491 | 35.1 | 20.8 | 30 | 19.9 | 52.6 | 0 | 46.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-19 | 2 | 13 | 34.5 | 24.3 | 39 | 18.4 | 55.8 | 0.1 | 43.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-20 | 5 | 17 | 33.2 | 23.1 | 47 | 12.2 | 48.2 | 0.6 | 26.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-21 | 12 | 31 | 34.3 | 23.9 | 37 | 20.2 | 52.6 | 0 | 41 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-22 | 24 | 720 | 25.7 | 17.3 | 62 | 21.1 | 49.7 | 0.3 | 24.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 27.8 | 16.6 | 40 | 15.4 | 34.6 | 0 | 23 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-24 | 7 | 36 | 32 | 19.6 | 37 | 14.3 | 37.1 | 0 | 32 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-25 | 6 | 19 | 34.4 | 21.6 | 37 | 15.6 | 45.4 | 0.1 | 37.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 23.5 | 38 | 15.5 | 43.2 | 0.8 | 37.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-27 | 31 | 819 | 33.2 | 21.1 | 43 | 17.3 | 45.4 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-28 | 8 | 23 | 26.5 | 19 | 66 | 18.1 | 47.2 | 3 | 10.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-29 | 0 | 0 | 18.3 | 14.3 | 67 | 22.3 | 49 | 5.1 | 10.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-30 | 4 | 51 | 28.2 | 14.1 | 49 | 13.3 | 32.4 | 0 | 4.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-01 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 19 | 42 | 12.4 | 27.7 | 0 | 14 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 20.5 | 41 | 11.2 | 20.9 | 0.6 | 20 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-10-03 | 0 | 0 | 32.7 | 21.5 | 45 | 9.8 | 25.6 | 0.3 | 18.4 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 34.7 | 21.9 | 40 | 14.4 | 38.2 | 0.1 | 27.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 22.7 | 42 | 20.1 | 61.6 | 0.6 | 35.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-06 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 19.2 | 42 | 19.5 | 63.4 | 7.7 | 36 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 5,503ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 22days
- 10 Sept 2022 – 1 Oct 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 10 Sept
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 388
- in a single hotspot: 146 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 306MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
10 Sept1 Oct
1 Oct 2022
How it evolved, day by day
10 Sept
13 Sept
19 Sept
24 Sept
30 Sept
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
56km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity
It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.7 mm on 6 Oct.
This area had burned before
90% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,789 ha in 2016, 2,630 ha in 2018, 2,371 ha in 2020, 789 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,949 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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5,522 ha reached on 10 Sept0.6 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept | 26.5 °C | 35 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 11 Sept | 31.4 °C | 37 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 12 Sept | 32.7 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 13 Sept | 32.7 °C | 39 % | 29 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 23 |
| 14 Sept | 22.9 °C | 38 % | 50 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 35 |
| 15 Sept | 24.6 °C | 39 % | 39 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 31 |
| 16 Sept | 31.0 °C | 36 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 21 |
| 17 Sept | 34.0 °C | 30 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 18 Sept | 35.1 °C | 30 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 19 Sept | 34.5 °C | 39 % | 56 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 44 |
| 20 Sept | 33.2 °C | 47 % | 48 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 27 |
| 21 Sept | 34.3 °C | 37 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 22 Sept | 25.7 °C | 62 % | 50 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Sept | 27.8 °C | 40 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 24 Sept | 32.0 °C | 37 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 25 Sept | 34.4 °C | 37 % | 45 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 38 |
| 26 Sept | 35.3 °C | 38 % | 43 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 37 |
| 27 Sept | 33.2 °C | 43 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Sept | 26.5 °C | 66 % | 47 km/h | 3.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 29 Sept | 18.3 °C | 67 % | 49 km/h | 5.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 30 Sept | 28.2 °C | 49 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 1 Oct | 32.0 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 2 Oct after | 33.6 °C | 41 % | 21 km/h | 0.6 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 3 Oct after | 32.7 °C | 45 % | 26 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 4 Oct after | 34.7 °C | 40 % | 38 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 28 |
| 5 Oct after | 33.6 °C | 42 % | 62 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 36 |
| 6 Oct after | 33.2 °C | 42 % | 63 km/h | 7.7 mm | High 36 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 32.3, a minimum humidity of 35% and 22 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 32.
FWI at the start
32.3
Minimum humidity
35 %
Days without rain
22
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · San Miguel fire, 10 September 2022
5,503 ha
22 days
FWI 32.3
Min. humidity 35 %
San Miguel fire, September 2018
21,134 ha
36 days
FWI 32.9
Min. humidity 36 %
25 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 16.2 mm on 19 Oct.
San Ignacio fire, July 2019
63,229 ha
42 days
FWI 31.4
Min. humidity 34 %
129 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
San Miguel fire, July 2025
5,669 ha
13 days
FWI 31.5
Min. humidity 39 %
26 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.1 mm on 4 Aug.
El Puente fire, July 2024
5,919 ha
12 days
FWI 32.7
Min. humidity 36 %
165 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.3 mm on 7 Aug.
San Ignacio fire, September 2017
7,228 ha
8 days
FWI 34.4
Min. humidity 32 %
28 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.8 mm on 15 Sept.
What happened to them
- 15 days
- median duration
- 5,686 ha
- median area
- 34 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 5.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 28 of 32 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (5,503 ha against a median of 5,686 ha) and lasted 22 days, against 15 days.
In 4 of 32, 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 5.8 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
7.7 mmfirst rain
6 Oct5 days after it ended
56km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 1 Oct, and on 6 Oct 7.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 28 of 32, with a median of 5.8 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
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Before · 3 Sept 2022
After · 8 Oct 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 12 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 191 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 132: 8.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak191 µg/m³
Days over the guideline24 days
PM10274 µg/m³
Optical depth2.71
WHO 15
9 Sept15 Sept21 Sept27 Sept3 Oct
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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 · 388Every 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
- 15,180 haSan Miguel13 August 2024 · 29 days · 11 km away
- 113,698 haSan MiguelJuly 2019 · 73 days · 20 km away
- 21,134 haSan MiguelSeptember 2018 · 36 days · 25 km away
- 15,986 haSan Ignacio1 November 2020 · 10 days · 26 km away
- 22,270 haSan MiguelAugust 2017 · 44 days · 28 km away
- 35,723 haSan Miguel26 August 2024 · 28 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the San Miguel fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 September 2022 to 1 October 2022 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 11 September 2022 to 1 October 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,503 hectares (55.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered San Miguel (5,522 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, 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.
- 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: 32. Their median duration was 15 days and their median area 5,686 ha; 34 % went past 10,000 ha. In 4 of 32, 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 5.8 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
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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 11 September 2022 to 1 October 2022. 388 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.