Fire near Chari-Baguirmi (TD)

11.42°N, 15.65°E · first detected on 15 October at 13:51

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 15 October at 13:51 to 20 October at 14:36, that is 5 days, through 84 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 1,632 ha.

Detected extent: 1,632 ha
Cumulative power: 676 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 66 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 84
Estimated emissions: 1.3 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 15 October 2026 to 20 October 2026. An order-of-magnitude estimate from GFAS (ECMWF, Copernicus CAMS): it also counts neighbouring fires in the same cell. Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information (2026).

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 8 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power summed over the pass	Detections	Sensor
21 October at 14:22	136 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:07	152 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 13:37	264 MW	2	Met9
21 October at 13:07	143 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 12:52	242 MW	2	Met9
21 October at 12:22	102 MW	1	Met10
20 October at 15:22	240 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 15:07	126 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 14:52	144 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 14:37	286 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 14:36	8 MW	1	N
20 October at 14:22	157 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 14:07	297 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 13:52	156 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 13:37	161 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 13:22	162 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 13:07	164 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 12:52	163 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 12:22	149 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 17:07	42 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 16:53	42 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 16:52	67 MW	2	Met10
19 October at 16:45	75 MW	4	Met12
19 October at 16:23	31 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 16:15	21 MW	1	Met12
19 October at 16:08	179 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 16:07	92 MW	2	Met10
19 October at 15:53	229 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 15:52	56 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 15:45	86 MW	2	Met12
19 October at 15:37	107 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 15:22	238 MW	2	Met9
19 October at 15:22	100 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 15:07	107 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 15:07	273 MW	2	Met9
19 October at 14:53	41 MW	5	N
19 October at 14:52	121 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 14:52	337 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 14:37	329 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 14:22	117 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 14:22	432 MW	4	Met9
19 October at 14:19	43 MW	6	N21
19 October at 14:07	127 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 14:07	453 MW	4	Met9
19 October at 14:05	34 MW	1	Met12
19 October at 13:52	391 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 13:45	63 MW	3	Met12
19 October at 13:37	501 MW	4	Met9
19 October at 13:37	246 MW	2	Met10
19 October at 13:35	38 MW	2	Met12
19 October at 13:34	60 MW	8	N20
19 October at 13:25	29 MW	2	Met12
19 October at 13:22	387 MW	3	Met9
19 October at 13:15	18 MW	1	Met12
19 October at 13:07	130 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 13:07	698 MW	4	Met9
19 October at 13:05	285 MW	7	Met12
19 October at 12:55	26 MW	2	Met12
19 October at 12:52	246 MW	2	Met10
19 October at 12:52	322 MW	2	Met9
19 October at 12:45	84 MW	4	Met12
19 October at 12:37	579 MW	4	Met10
19 October at 12:37	425 MW	2	Met9
19 October at 12:35	225 MW	8	Met12
19 October at 12:22	365 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 12:15	116 MW	3	Met12
19 October at 12:07	339 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 11:55	66 MW	2	Met12
19 October at 11:52	597 MW	5	Met10
19 October at 11:45	245 MW	6	Met12
19 October at 11:37	501 MW	5	Met10
19 October at 11:35	198 MW	5	Met12
19 October at 11:25	74 MW	3	Met12
19 October at 11:22	359 MW	4	Met10
19 October at 11:07	136 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 11:07	280 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 10:52	126 MW	1	Met9
19 October at 10:52	245 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 10:37	223 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 10:22	199 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 10:07	184 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 09:52	167 MW	3	Met10
19 October at 09:46	14 MW	1	Met12
19 October at 09:37	101 MW	2	Met10
19 October at 09:22	44 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 09:07	43 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 08:52	38 MW	1	Met10
19 October at 08:52	85 MW	2	Met9
19 October at 02:07	1 MW	1	N
18 October at 21:42	8 MW	1	Terra
18 October at 15:14	6 MW	1	N
18 October at 14:36	28 MW	6	N21
18 October at 13:51	27 MW	4	N20
17 October at 14:12	11 MW	3	N20
17 October at 13:51	4 MW	1	N
16 October at 15:55	66 MW	1	Aqua
16 October at 14:29	98 MW	4	N20
16 October at 14:10	16 MW	1	N
16 October at 13:34	25 MW	3	N21
16 October at 09:37	9 MW	1	Terra
16 October at 03:05	1 MW	1	N
16 October at 02:28	10 MW	5	N21
15 October at 21:23	19 MW	2	Terra
15 October at 16:54	17 MW	1	Aqua
15 October at 14:51	88 MW	12	N20
15 October at 14:29	57 MW	8	N
15 October at 13:51	5 MW	1	N21

2 other fires near Chari-Baguirmi (TD)

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