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Andros fire, June 2024 δημοτική ενότητα Άνδρου · Andros

Out · last detection 23 Jun 2024, 11:08 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2024 in Andros, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 103 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in South Aegean since 2016 (of 25 with a page). Number 40 in Greece in 2024, of 42.

Burnt area
103ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
22 Jun 2024 – 23 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
22 Jun
2024
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 57 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Energy released
207MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

23 Jun 2024
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun23 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2223

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

23°high
62km/h · peak gust
71%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 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. Andros δημοτική ενότητα Άνδρου 5,123 inhabitants where it started
    103 ha reached on 22 Jun
    0.3 %

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

  • Sclerophyllous scrub66 %
  • Agricultural areas33 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %

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)
22 Jun 23.0 °C 71 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Jun 22.4 °C 71 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Jun after 22.5 °C 72 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
25 Jun after 22.9 °C 75 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
26 Jun after 22.8 °C 72 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
27 Jun after 22.4 °C 72 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun after 22.3 °C 74 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
29 Jun after 23.3 °C 61 % 76 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
30 Jun after 22.8 °C 61 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
1 Jul after 22.5 °C 71 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
2 Jul after 22.9 °C 72 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
3 Jul after 22.1 °C 84 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2024
After · 30 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 21 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1034 µg/m³
Optical depth0.29
20212223242526
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 · 8Every 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 Andros fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 June 2024 and 23 June 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 103 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Andros (103 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 23.0 °C, humidity dropped to 71 % and gusts hit 62 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Greece (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 · 199

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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 ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.