Burned area
satellite only400ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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RO · Romania · –
Carașova fire, 17 March 2019 Carașova
Out · last detection 18 Mar 2019, 01:00 UTC
The fire started on 17 March 2019 in Carașova, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 400 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 38th largest in Caraș-Severin since 2016 (of 195 with a page). Number 8 in Romania in 2019, of 39.
The power measured by the satellite is low (6.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only2days
17 Mar 2019 to 18 Mar 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 18 Mar 2019, 01:00 UTC
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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 only17 Mar 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 17 Mar 2019
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only4
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 6 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 17 Mar 2019 – 18 Mar 2019
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only7MW
Total radiative power on 17 March 2019; hotspots that day: 2.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 17 Mar 2019
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model0.6FWI · 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
- 17 Mar 2019, 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
model21.1°C · 37% RH
High of 21.1 °C and minimum humidity of 37% on 17 March 2019; gusts of 32 km/h on 18 March 2019.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 17 Mar 2019 – 18 Mar 2019
- 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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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 400 ha
- Dates
- 17 Mar 2019 – 18 Mar 2019
- Name
- Carașova
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/carasova-2019-03-3?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 carasova-2019-03-3.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-17 | 2 | 7 | 21.1 | 5.8 | 37 | 13.9 | 30.6 | 0 | 0.6 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-03-18 | 2 | 6 | 20.4 | 7 | 40 | 14 | 31.7 | 0 | 0.7 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-03-19 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5.6 | 64 | 11.8 | 29.2 | 0.2 | 1.8 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-20 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5.2 | 68 | 11.3 | 25.9 | 0.6 | 0.8 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-21 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 3.3 | 45 | 10.6 | 28.8 | 0 | 2 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-22 | 0 | 0 | 15.7 | 0.2 | 43 | 11.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 4.1 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-23 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 1.2 | 42 | 12.5 | 32.8 | 0 | 5.3 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-24 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 0.8 | 34 | 8.8 | 18.7 | 0 | 6.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-25 | 0 | 0 | 17.3 | 4 | 33 | 16.1 | 34.9 | 0 | 10.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-26 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 0.8 | 40 | 18.9 | 44.6 | 0.4 | 10.7 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-27 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 0 | 27 | 16 | 39.6 | 0 | 8.9 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-03-28 | 0 | 0 | 12.1 | -2.4 | 28 | 11.2 | 27.7 | 0 | 8.1 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 400ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 17 Mar 2019 – 18 Mar 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 17 Mar
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 6 MW
- Danger at start
- 1
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 7MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
17 Mar18 Mar
18 Mar 2019
How it evolved, day by day
17 Mar
18 Mar
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
21°high
32km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
19% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 74 ha in 2017.
What happened to each town
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400 ha reached on 17 Mar2.8 %
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
- Broadleaved forest65 %
- Agricultural areas35 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 93 %
- ZEPA Munții Semenic - Cheile Carașului ROSPA0086
- LIC Semenic - Cheile Carașului ROSCI0226
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar | 21.1 °C | 37 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 18 Mar | 20.4 °C | 40 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 19 Mar after | 12.0 °C | 64 % | 29 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very low 2 |
| 20 Mar after | 9.0 °C | 68 % | 26 km/h | 0.6 mm | Very low 1 |
| 21 Mar after | 13.3 °C | 45 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 22 Mar after | 15.7 °C | 43 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 23 Mar after | 17.8 °C | 42 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 24 Mar after | 18.5 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 25 Mar after | 17.3 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 26 Mar after | 10.6 °C | 40 % | 45 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 11 |
| 27 Mar after | 10.4 °C | 27 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 28 Mar after | 12.1 °C | 28 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 0.6, a minimum humidity of 37% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 15.
FWI at the start
0.6
Minimum humidity
37 %
Days without rain
0
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Carașova fire, 17 March 2019
400 ha
2 days
FWI 0.6
Min. humidity 37 %
Carașova fire, April 2020
510 ha
1 day
FWI 2.7
Min. humidity 37 %
2 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Mehadia fire, March 2022
240 ha
4 days
FWI 0.3
Min. humidity 36 %
44 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.8 mm on 31 Mar.
Petriș fire, March 2025
530 ha
5 days
FWI 0.4
Min. humidity 37 %
115 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 12.6 mm on 11 Mar.
Petriș fire, April 2024
103 ha
1 day
FWI 0.9
Min. humidity 37 %
104 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 3 Apr.
Vorța fire, February 2021
104 ha
2 days
FWI 0.6
Min. humidity 37 %
116 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 141 ha
- median area
- 7 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 5.3 mm
- rain at the end (median; 13 of 15 had it)
It was 2.8 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 2 days, against 2 days.
Only 4 of its 15 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 2 of 15, 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 5.3 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
32km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Mar, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 13 of 15, with a median of 5.3 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
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 10 Mar 2019
After · 25 Mar 2019
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 15 March 2019 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1029 µg/m³
WHO 15
15 Mar17 Mar19 Mar21 Mar
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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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 772 haBucoșnițaMarch 2025 · 2 days · 26 km away
- 710 haBozoviciMarch 2022 · 4 days · 29 km away
- 2,705 haLăpușnicel20 March 2022 · 9 days · 33 km away
- 1,897 haLăpușnicel23 March 2022 · 7 days · 33 km away
- 1,896 haLăpușnicel6 March 2025 · 5 days · 33 km away
- 1,158 haIablanița6 March 2025 · 4 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Carașova fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 17 March 2019 and 18 March 2019: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 400 hectares (4.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Carașova (400 ha, 2.8 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Carașova and came within 2.4 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 21.1 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Romania (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: 15. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 141 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 4 of its 15 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 2 of 15, 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 5.3 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: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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. 4 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 2020, 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 ADM2 (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.