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Agrigento fire, 13 June 2022 Agrigento, Cattolica Eraclea

Out · last measured on 13 Jun 2022

The fire started on 13 June 2022 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 203 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 126th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 64 in Italy in 2022, of 161.

Burnt area
203ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
13 Jun 2022 – 13 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
13 Jun
2022
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 6 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jun13 Jun

The weather it burned in

29°high
37km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

5% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 11 ha in 2018, 5 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 16.7 km from the town where it started
    191 ha reached on 12 Jun
    0.8 %
  2. Cattolica Eraclea 3,300 inhabitants · 3.5 km from the town
    12 ha
    0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official 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.

What burned

  • Other natural land91 %
  • Agricultural areas6.4 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub2.5 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
13 Jun 28.9 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
14 Jun after 28.0 °C 38 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Jun after 27.8 °C 48 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
16 Jun after 28.3 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 20
17 Jun after 29.5 °C 41 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
18 Jun after 28.5 °C 48 % 24 km/h 0.3 mm High 22
19 Jun after 28.1 °C 44 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
20 Jun after 27.9 °C 47 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Jun after 29.2 °C 40 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
22 Jun after 29.6 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
23 Jun after 33.0 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jun 2022
After · 20 Jun 2022

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

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 16 June 2022 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1016 µg/m³
111213141516
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 2Every 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 Agrigento fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 June 2022 and 13 June 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 203 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Agrigento (191 ha, 0.8 %); Cattolica Eraclea (12 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.5 km of Cattolica Eraclea. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.9 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Italy (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: 112 · 1515

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. 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 ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.