How long did the Ventanas fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 November 2019 and 29 November 2019: 1 day 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 1,301 hectares (13.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Ventanas (1,310 ha, 2.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 74 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.

Where does this data come from?

From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ecuador (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

EC · Ecuador · 2019-11-29 → 2019-11-29

Ventanas fire, 29 November 2019 Ventanas

Out · last detection 29 Nov 2019, 18:59 UTC

The fire started on 29 November 2019 in Ventanas, Ecuador, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,301 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 11th largest in Los Ríos since 2016 (of 28 with a page). Number 11 in Ecuador in 2019, of 17.

Burnt area: 1,301ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 1day; 29 Nov 2019 – 29 Nov 2019
Municipalities hit: 1; cantons
Started on: 29 Nov; 2019
Heat detections: 23; in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start: 0; Very low · FWI index
Energy released: 239MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Nov29 Nov

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.

The weather it burned in

28°high

23km/h · peak gust

74%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 19.7 mm on 30 Nov.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Ventanas where it started

1,310 ha reached on 29 Nov

2.4 %

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)
29 Nov	28.5 °C	74 %	23 km/h	10.1 mm	Very low 0
30 Nov after	25.4 °C	85 %	16 km/h	19.7 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 22 Nov 2019

After · 6 Dec 2019

Before After

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 · 23Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ventanas fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 November 2019 and 29 November 2019: 1 day 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 1,301 hectares (13.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Ventanas (1,310 ha, 2.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 74 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
Where does this data come from?: From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ecuador (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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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 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.

Where it burned