Burned area
satellite only286ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 21 March 2024
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BA · Bosnia & Herzegovina ·
Bosanski Petrovac fire, March 2024 Bosanski Petrovac
Out · last measured on 5 Mar 2024
The fire started on 5 March 2024 in Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 286 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 216th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 36 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024, of 87.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
5 Mar 2024 to 5 Mar 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 5 Mar 2024 – 5 Mar 2024
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only5 Mar 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 5 Mar 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model0.3FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 5 Mar 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model15.1°C · 50% RH
High of 15.1 °C and minimum humidity of 50% on 5 March 2024; gusts of 40 km/h on 5 March 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 5 Mar 2024 – 5 Mar 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 286 ha
- Dates
- 5 Mar 2024 – 5 Mar 2024
- Name
- Bosanski Petrovac
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/bosanski-petrovac-2024-03?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire bosanski-petrovac-2024-03.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-05 | 0 | 0 | 15.1 | 4 | 50 | 10.7 | 40 | 0.3 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2024-03-06 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3.3 | 72 | 4.7 | 20.5 | 22.9 | 0 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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Sources for this page: EFFIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), ERA5 (ECMWF/Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), GHSL (JRC). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
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
- 286ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 5 Mar 2024 – 5 Mar 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 5 Mar
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
15°high
40km/h · peak gust
50%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 22.9 mm on 6 Mar.
This area had burned before
73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 208 ha in 2017.
What happened to each town
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Bosanski Petrovac where it started285 ha0.4 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Scrub and transitional woodland64 %
- Agricultural areas27 %
- Broadleaved forest5.9 %
- Other natural land3.1 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Mar | 15.1 °C | 50 % | 40 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very low 0 |
| 6 Mar after | 11.0 °C | 72 % | 20 km/h | 22.9 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 0.3, a minimum humidity of 50% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 32.
FWI at the start
0.3
Minimum humidity
50 %
Days without rain
0
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Bosanski Petrovac fire, March 2024
286 ha
1 day
FWI 0.3
Min. humidity 50 %
Kupres (BiH) fire, February 2024
112 ha
1 day
FWI 0.3
Min. humidity 50 %
118 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.8 mm on 22 Feb.
Bosansko Grahovo fire, March 2026
367 ha
7 days
FWI 0.6
Min. humidity 52 %
32 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.1 mm on 17 Mar.
Livno fire, December 2016
389 ha
4 days
FWI 0.5
Min. humidity 50 %
106 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Bosanski Petrovac fire, October 2025
122 ha
1 day
FWI 1.9
Min. humidity 51 %
9 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 18.3 mm on 3 Nov.
Glamoč fire, February 2026
772 ha
7 days
FWI 0.2
Min. humidity 48 %
55 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.1 mm on 4 Mar.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 378 ha
- median area
- 9 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 3.3 mm
- rain at the end (median; 29 of 32 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (286 ha against a median of 378 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 2 days.
In 3 of 32, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.3 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
22.9 mmfirst rain
6 Marthe day after it ended
40km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 5 Mar, and on 6 Mar 22.9 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 29 of 32, with a median of 3.3 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 27 Feb 2024
After · 12 Mar 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 6 March 2024 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.53
WHO 15
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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 Bosanski Petrovac fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 5 March 2024 and 5 March 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 286 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bosanski Petrovac (285 ha, 0.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 15.1 °C, humidity dropped to 50 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 32. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 378 ha; 9 % went past 1,000 ha. In 3 of 32, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.3 mm.
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: 123 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
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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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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 (Public Domain). 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.