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Calamonaci fire, June 2024 Calamonaci, Bivona, Ribera

Out · last measured on 27 Jun 2024

The fire started on 27 June 2024 in Calamonaci, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 183 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 141th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 47 in Italy in 2024, of 112.

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
183ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
27 Jun 2024 – 27 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
27 Jun
2024
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

28°high
26km/h · peak gust
47%lowest humidity

It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

67% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 91 ha in 2018, 31 ha in 2022, 53 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 122 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Calamonaci 1,719 inhabitants · 9.6 km from the town where it started
    133 ha
    4.0 %
  2. Bivona
    51 ha
    0.6 %
  3. Ribera 17,836 inhabitants · 9.7 km from the town
    0 ha
    0.0 %

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

  • Other natural land76 %
  • Agricultural areas24 %

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)
27 Jun 28.3 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Jun after 29.7 °C 40 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Jun after 29.0 °C 50 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
30 Jun after 29.8 °C 43 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
1 Jul after 31.2 °C 47 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Jul after 27.6 °C 64 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
3 Jul after 26.0 °C 66 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
4 Jul after 25.5 °C 60 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jul after 26.0 °C 64 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
6 Jul after 26.9 °C 59 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
7 Jul after 28.0 °C 50 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Jun 2024
After · 4 Jul 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 30 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
PM1030 µg/m³
Optical depth1.00
252627282930
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Calamonaci fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 27 June 2024 and 27 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 183 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Calamonaci (133 ha, 4.0 %); Bivona (51 ha, 0.6 %); Ribera (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 9.6 km of Calamonaci. 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 28.3 °C, humidity dropped to 47 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
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.