Sengbédou fire, February 2024 Sengbédou, Kouankan
The fire started on 2 February 2024 in Sengbédou, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,448 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 121th largest in Nzérékoré since 2016 (of 241 with a page). Number 65 in Guinea in 2024, of 118.
- Burnt area
- 2,448ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 2 Feb 2024 – 9 Feb 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 2 Feb
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 153
- in a single hotspot: 108 MW
- Energy released
- 667MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,213 ha in 2016, 53 ha in 2017, 914 ha in 2018, 2,004 ha in 2019, 1,760 ha in 2020, 946 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,428 ha that had burned before.
- 2,071 ha Sengbédou fire, January 2016 6,742 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,432 ha Kouankan fire, January 2020 4,035 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,149 ha Sengbédou fire, February 2019 7,621 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 445 ha Sengbédou fire, February 2022 5,057 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 328 ha Sengbédou fire, February 2020 2,459 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 68 ha Sengbédou fire, February 2016 4,712 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Sengbédou where it started1,362 ha reached on 26 Jan2.3 %
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1,101 ha reached on 26 Jan0.9 %
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.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 153Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Sengbédou fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 February 2024 and 9 February 2024: 8 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 2,448 hectares (24.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Sengbédou (1,362 ha, 2.3 %); Kouankan (1,101 ha, 0.9 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (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.
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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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.