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Yaossédougou fire, 23 December 2017 Yaossédougou, Bassawa

Out · last detection 31 Dec 2017, 13:45 UTC

The fire started on 23 December 2017 in Yaossédougou, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,401 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 34th largest in Valle Du Bandama since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 90 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017, of 174.

The power measured by the satellite is low (22.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
1,401ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
23 Dec 2017 – 31 Dec 2017
Municipalities hit
2
sub-prefectures
Started on
23 Dec
2017
Heat detections
31
in a single hotspot: 22 MW
Energy released
138MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

31 Dec 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Dec31 Dec

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.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Yaossédougou where it started
    1,042 ha reached on 23 Dec
    2.8 %
  2. Bassawa
    368 ha reached on 23 Dec
    0.4 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Dec 2017
After · 7 Jan 2018

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 · 31Every 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 Yaossédougou fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 December 2017 to 31 December 2017 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 December 2017 to 27 December 2017.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,401 hectares (14.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Yaossédougou (1,042 ha, 2.8 %); Bassawa (368 ha, 0.4 %).
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.