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Tiébissou fire, 22 January 2016 Tiébissou, Djébonoua

Out · last detection 3 Feb 2016, 13:14 UTC

The fire started on 22 January 2016 in Tiébissou, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,508 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 8th largest in Lacs since 2016 (of 139 with a page). Number 17 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016, of 226.

Burnt area
5,508ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
22 Jan 2016 – 2 Feb 2016
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
22 Jan
2016
Heat detections
175
in a single hotspot: 45 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

3 Feb 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jan2 Feb

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

37°high
41km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone 50 days 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. Tiébissou where it started
    5,506 ha reached on 22 Jan
    5.9 %
  2. Djébonoua
    40 ha reached on 24 Jan
    0.1 %

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.

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)
22 Jan 35.9 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Jan 36.7 °C 7 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
24 Jan 35.2 °C 10 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
25 Jan 34.8 °C 16 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
26 Jan 35.0 °C 16 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
27 Jan 35.4 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
28 Jan 34.6 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
29 Jan 34.2 °C 9 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
30 Jan 35.3 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
31 Jan 35.4 °C 15 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
1 Feb 36.1 °C 9 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Feb 35.6 °C 10 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
3 Feb after 36.2 °C 10 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Feb after 35.5 °C 20 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
5 Feb after 36.2 °C 17 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
6 Feb after 37.9 °C 14 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
7 Feb after 36.9 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Feb after 35.9 °C 26 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
9 Feb after 37.1 °C 15 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
10 Feb after 37.0 °C 10 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
11 Feb after 37.1 °C 20 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Feb after 36.8 °C 20 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jan 2016
After · 9 Feb 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 · 175Every 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 Tiébissou fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 January 2016 and 2 February 2016: 12 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 5,508 hectares (55.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tiébissou (5,506 ha, 5.9 %); Djébonoua (40 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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: 180

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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.