Burned area
satellite only1,893ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 20 Aug 2017 – 4 Sept 2017
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PY · Paraguay · –
Villa Hayes fire, 20 August 2017 Villa Hayes
Out · last detection 4 Sept 2017, 17:12 UTC
The fire started on 20 August 2017 in Villa Hayes, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,893 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 496th largest in PRESIDENTE HAYES since 2016 (of 709 with a page). Number 160 in Paraguay in 2017, of 261.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only16days
20 Aug 2017 to 4 Sept 2017: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 4 Sept 2017, 17:12 UTC
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Start
satellite only20 Aug 2017
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 20 Aug 2017
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Hotspots
satellite only80
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 101 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 20 Aug 2017 – 4 Sept 2017
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The worst day
satellite only554MW
Total radiative power on 25 August 2017; hotspots that day: 14.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 25 Aug 2017
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model15.2FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 4.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 20 Aug 2017, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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Weather during the fire
model38.1°C · 27% RH
High of 38.1 °C and minimum humidity of 27% on 28 August 2017; gusts of 59 km/h on 23 August 2017.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 20 Aug 2017 – 4 Sept 2017
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 30people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.36 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2015).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 30 August 2017 → 4 September 2017.
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logStart date: 25 August 2017 → 20 August 2017.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 1,893 ha
- Dates
- 20 Aug 2017 – 4 Sept 2017
- Name
- Villa Hayes
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/villa-hayes-2017-08-9?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire villa-hayes-2017-08-9.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-20 | 2 | 11 | 25.9 | 15.4 | 37 | 31 | 57.6 | 0.3 | 15.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-08-21 | 15 | 289 | 21.8 | 7.7 | 31 | 17.9 | 37.8 | 0 | 11.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-08-22 | 10 | 12 | 27.9 | 8.3 | 36 | 19.7 | 37.8 | 0 | 13.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 34.8 | 19.8 | 38 | 31.5 | 58.7 | 0 | 21.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-08-24 | 2 | 19 | 36.5 | 24.6 | 28 | 27.9 | 53.3 | 0 | 25.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-25 | 14 | 554 | 36.2 | 23.9 | 27 | 27.9 | 53.3 | 0 | 27.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-26 | 6 | 62 | 36.8 | 24.8 | 29 | 24.9 | 46.8 | 0.1 | 26.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-27 | 4 | 64 | 35 | 22.4 | 38 | 16.6 | 50.4 | 0.8 | 16.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-08-28 | 4 | 9 | 38.1 | 23.7 | 27 | 23.5 | 45.4 | 0 | 27.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-29 | 4 | 150 | 38.1 | 24.9 | 27 | 22.1 | 42.5 | 0 | 28.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-30 | 13 | 49 | 28.2 | 17.4 | 42 | 24.6 | 50 | 0 | 24.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 26.1 | 11.2 | 45 | 18.4 | 34.9 | 0 | 18.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2017-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 36.4 | 15.1 | 28 | 18 | 31.7 | 0 | 25.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-09-02 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 24.7 | 22 | 21.7 | 41.8 | 0 | 33.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 36.9 | 25.3 | 23 | 25.2 | 50 | 0 | 37.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2017-09-04 | 5 | 82 | 36.1 | 22.1 | 25 | 28 | 52.9 | 0 | 41.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2017-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 20.4 | 15 | 64 | 25.2 | 48.2 | 0 | 18.7 | moderado | 0 |
| 2017-09-06 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 16.3 | 48 | 12.7 | 29.5 | 0 | 14.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2017-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 18.5 | 22 | 18.2 | 37.1 | 0 | 32 | alto | 0 |
| 2017-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 24.4 | 24 | 21.9 | 43.2 | 0 | 35.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2017-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 38.3 | 27.4 | 26 | 28.1 | 59.8 | 0 | 42.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2017-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 38.2 | 20.4 | 29 | 37.1 | 83.5 | 3.2 | 38 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 1,893ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 16days
- 20 Aug 2017 – 4 Sept 2017
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 20 Aug
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 80
- in a single hotspot: 101 MW
- Danger at start
- 15
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 108MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
20 Aug4 Sept
4 Sept 2017
How it evolved, day by day
20 Aug
25 Aug
30 Aug
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
59km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.2 mm on 10 Sept.
This area had burned before
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 28 ha in 2016.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Villa Hayes where it started1,889 ha reached on 20 Aug0.1 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2015Built-up area0.36 ha
Residents≈ 30
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.36 hectares of built-up land and about 30 residents (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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)
Started with Strong wind: 23 % of the area in Paraguay
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug | 25.9 °C | 37 % | 58 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 21 Aug | 21.8 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 22 Aug | 27.9 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 23 Aug | 34.8 °C | 38 % | 59 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 24 Aug | 36.5 °C | 28 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 25 Aug | 36.2 °C | 27 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 26 Aug | 36.8 °C | 29 % | 47 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Aug | 35.0 °C | 38 % | 50 km/h | 0.8 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 28 Aug | 38.1 °C | 27 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 29 Aug | 38.1 °C | 27 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 30 Aug | 28.2 °C | 42 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 31 Aug | 26.1 °C | 45 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 1 Sept | 36.4 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 2 Sept | 38.0 °C | 22 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 3 Sept | 36.9 °C | 23 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 4 Sept | 36.1 °C | 25 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 5 Sept after | 20.4 °C | 64 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 6 Sept after | 28.6 °C | 48 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 7 Sept after | 36.3 °C | 22 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 8 Sept after | 36.3 °C | 24 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 9 Sept after | 38.3 °C | 26 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 10 Sept after | 38.2 °C | 29 % | 84 km/h | 3.2 mm | High 38 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 15.2, a minimum humidity of 37% and 4 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 38.
FWI at the start
15.2
Minimum humidity
37 %
Days without rain
4
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Villa Hayes fire, 20 August 2017
1,893 ha
16 days
FWI 15.2
Min. humidity 37 %
General Jose Maria Bruguez fire, August 2019
1,801 ha
2 days
FWI 14.5
Min. humidity 38 %
63 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.1 mm on 9 Aug.
Villa Hayes fire, March 2020
1,823 ha
9 days
FWI 18.6
Min. humidity 37 %
15 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.2 mm on 6 Apr.
General Jose Maria Bruguez fire, September 2017
1,930 ha
3 days
FWI 17.2
Min. humidity 37 %
131 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 4.9 mm on 23 Sept.
Villa Hayes fire, September 2019
1,531 ha
6 days
FWI 15.1
Min. humidity 39 %
113 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 2 Oct.
Tte 1Ro Manuel Irala Fernandez fire, March 2021
1,927 ha
5 days
FWI 13.5
Min. humidity 38 %
80 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.0 mm on 17 Mar.
What happened to them
- 5 days
- median duration
- 1,705 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 5.3 mm
- rain at the end (median; 38 of 38 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (1,893 ha against a median of 1,705 ha) and lasted 16 days, against 5 days.
All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.3 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
3.2 mmfirst rain
10 Sept6 days after it ended
59km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 4 Sept, and on 10 Sept 3.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 38 of 38, with a median of 5.3 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 13 Aug 2017
After · 11 Sept 2017
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Detections table · 80Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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 |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,951 haVilla Hayes6 March 2020 · 9 days · 24 km away
- 45,862 haPuerto Pinasco24 September 2020 · 20 days · 25 km away
- 7,170 haPuerto Pinasco27 September 2020 · 14 days · 28 km away
- 13,040 haVilla Hayes22 September 2021 · 12 days · 35 km away
- 6,964 haPuerto PinascoJune 2020 · 5 days · 38 km away
- 7,019 haPuerto Pinasco27 August 2017 · 9 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Villa Hayes fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 20 August 2017 to 4 September 2017 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 25 August 2017 to 30 August 2017.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,893 hectares (18.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Villa Hayes (1,889 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.1 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 38. Their median duration was 5 days and their median area 1,705 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.3 mm.
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: 132 · 911 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 30 August 2017 → 4 September 2017.
- Start date: 25 August 2017 → 20 August 2017.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 25 August 2017 to 30 August 2017. 80 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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 (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.