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Agrigento fire, June 2024 Agrigento

Out · last measured on 14 Jun 2024

The fire started on 14 June 2024 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 145 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 193th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 69 in Italy in 2024, of 112.

Burnt area
145ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Jun
2024
Heat detections
5
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jun14 Jun

The weather it burned in

28°high
43km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

92% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 39 ha in 2016, 6 ha in 2017, 48 ha in 2019, 66 ha in 2020, 53 ha in 2021, 113 ha in 2022, 30 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 133 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 17.1 km from the town where it started
    145 ha reached on 11 Jun
    0.6 %

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 land81 %
  • Agricultural areas19 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.7 %

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)
14 Jun 27.9 °C 30 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
15 Jun after 26.9 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Jun after 29.8 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
17 Jun after 32.2 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jun after 31.3 °C 37 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
19 Jun after 31.5 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Jun after 35.3 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jun after 34.6 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
22 Jun after 36.4 °C 30 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
23 Jun after 30.3 °C 25 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
24 Jun after 30.1 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jun 2024
After · 21 Jun 2024

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 12 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1076 µg/m³
Optical depth0.75
121314151617
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 · 5Every 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 14 June 2024 and 14 June 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 145 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Agrigento (145 ha, 0.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 17.1 km of Agrigento. 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 27.9 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.