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Yoro fire, 11 April 2020 Yoro

Out · last detection 18 Apr 2020, 18:19 UTC

The fire started on 11 April 2020 in Yoro, Honduras, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,042 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 32th largest in Yoro since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 163 in Honduras in 2020, of 174.

Burnt area
1,042ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
11 Apr 2020 – 18 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
11 Apr
2020
Heat detections
31
in a single hotspot: 40 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
263MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

18 Apr 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Apr18 Apr

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

35°high
41km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 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. Yoro where it started
    1,048 ha reached on 6 Apr
    0.5 %

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)
11 Apr 32.9 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Apr 34.1 °C 16 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Apr 34.6 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Apr 32.6 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Apr 31.8 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Apr 30.8 °C 34 % 41 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
17 Apr 31.5 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Apr 32.6 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Apr after 33.0 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
20 Apr after 33.7 °C 26 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Apr after 30.7 °C 38 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Apr after 30.7 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Apr after 33.4 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Apr after 33.8 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
25 Apr after 31.6 °C 32 % 33 km/h 0.6 mm High 28
26 Apr after 32.0 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
27 Apr after 31.3 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Apr after 30.0 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Apr 2020
After · 25 Apr 2020

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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Yoro fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 April 2020 and 18 April 2020: 8 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 1,042 hectares (10.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Yoro (1,048 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Honduras (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

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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 4.0 International (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.