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Teupasenti fire, April 2016 Teupasenti

Out · last detection 10 Apr 2016, 19:04 UTC

The fire started on 6 April 2016 in Teupasenti, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,047 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 61th largest in El Paraíso since 2016 (of 63 with a page). Number 44 in Honduras in 2016, of 51.

Burnt area
1,047ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
6 Apr 2016 – 10 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Apr
2016
Heat detections
36
in a single hotspot: 43 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index
Energy released
228MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Apr 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Apr10 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
48km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone one day 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.

What happened to each town

  1. Teupasenti where it started
    1,053 ha reached on 30 Mar
    1.6 %

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 Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Apr 32.6 °C 28 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
7 Apr 33.1 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Apr 34.0 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
9 Apr 33.4 °C 27 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Apr 32.3 °C 29 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Apr after 31.0 °C 39 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
12 Apr after 33.3 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 27
13 Apr after 34.3 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.4 mm High 28
14 Apr after 34.1 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
15 Apr after 34.7 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Apr after 34.5 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Apr after 35.3 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
18 Apr after 32.6 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
19 Apr after 31.6 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 29
20 Apr after 33.4 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.8 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Mar 2016
After · 17 Apr 2016

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 · 36Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Teupasenti fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 April 2016 and 10 April 2016: 5 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 1,047 hectares (10.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Teupasenti (1,053 ha, 1.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.0 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Honduras (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: 911

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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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.