Tarihoye fire, April 2024 Tarihoye
The fire started on 22 April 2024 in Tarihoye, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,695 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 139th largest in Kindia since 2016 (of 242 with a page). Number 48 in Guinea in 2024, of 118.
- Burnt area
- 2,695ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 22 Apr 2024 – 25 Apr 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 22 Apr
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 74
- in a single hotspot: 347 MW
- Energy released
- 4.1GW
- 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
89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,406 ha in 2016, 550 ha in 2017, 1,001 ha in 2018, 256 ha in 2019, 532 ha in 2020, 525 ha in 2021, 510 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,407 ha that had burned before.
- 1,001 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2018 4,084 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 532 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2020 2,073 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 493 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2016 4,394 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 78 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2017 2,100 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Tarihoye where it started2,711 ha reached on 22 Apr5.1 %
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 20 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 64 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 55: 3.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 74Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 10,531 haKonsotami19 April 2018 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 16,941 haKonsotami12 April 2017 · 9 days · 29 km away
- 9,219 haSogolon11 April 2017 · 10 days · 29 km away
- 12,262 haKoba13 April 2017 · 18 days · 33 km away
- 9,116 haThionthian9 April 2016 · 11 days · 33 km away
- 9,669 haSogolonApril 2026 · 21 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Tarihoye fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 April 2024 and 25 April 2024: 4 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 2,695 hectares (27.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Tarihoye (2,711 ha, 5.1 %).
- 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.