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Almagro fire, June 2016 Almagro, Valenzuela de Calatrava

Out · last measured on 26 Jun 2016

The fire started on 26 June 2016 in Almagro, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 119 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 19th largest in Ciudad Real since 2016 (of 24 with a page). Number 63 in Spain in 2016, of 69.

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We have the Copernicus 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
119ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
26 Jun 2016 – 26 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
26 Jun
2016
Danger at start
52
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

34°high
36km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 4 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Almagro 9,190 inhabitants · 12.6 km from the town where it started
    76 ha
    0.3 %
  2. Valenzuela de Calatrava 638 inhabitants · 5.6 km from the town
    43 ha
    1.0 %

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

  • Agricultural areas74 %
  • Other natural land26 %

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)
26 Jun 34.2 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
27 Jun after 36.2 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
28 Jun after 33.5 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.9 mm High 32
29 Jun after 35.8 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
30 Jun after 35.0 °C 17 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
1 Jul after 35.3 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
2 Jul after 37.4 °C 15 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Jul after 39.6 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.7 mm Extreme 53
4 Jul after 35.4 °C 25 % 37 km/h 1.5 mm Very high 40

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Jun 2016
After · 3 Jul 2016

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 28 June 2016 the air beside the fire reached 45 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak45 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1077 µg/m³
242526272829
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Almagro fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 26 June 2016 and 26 June 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 119 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Almagro (76 ha, 0.3 %); Valenzuela de Calatrava (43 ha, 1.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.6 km of Valenzuela de Calatrava. 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 34.2 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Spain (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

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 ADM3 (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 slightly from each country’s official figure.