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Yingjiang County fire, April 2019 China

Out · last measured on 22 Apr 2019

The fire started on 18 April 2019 in Yingjiang County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,074 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 319th largest in Yunnan Province since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 185 in China in 2019, of 215.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
1,074ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
18 Apr 2019 – 22 Apr 2019
Municipalities hit
0
counties
Started on
18 Apr
2019
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

33°high
34km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 302 ha in 2016.

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)
18 Apr 32.6 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 19
19 Apr 32.9 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 21
20 Apr 33.2 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.3 mm High 22
21 Apr 31.5 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
22 Apr 32.7 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
23 Apr after 33.8 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
24 Apr after 34.1 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Apr after 34.8 °C 28 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
26 Apr after 35.4 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm High 29
27 Apr after 35.0 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
28 Apr after 32.7 °C 40 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm High 27
29 Apr after 30.3 °C 43 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 20
30 Apr after 30.6 °C 41 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 21
1 May after 30.5 °C 43 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
2 May after 31.9 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Apr 2019
After · 29 Apr 2019

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Yingjiang County fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 April 2019 and 22 April 2019: 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 1,074 hectares (10.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.2 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of China (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: 119

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.