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Carcastillo fire, July 2022 Carcastillo

Out · last detection 26 Jul 2022, 01:15 UTC

The fire started on 25 July 2022 in Carcastillo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 365 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 9th largest in Navarre since 2016 (of 26 with a page). Number 76 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area
365ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
25 Jul 2022 – 26 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
25 Jul
2022
Heat detections
13
in a single hotspot: 34 MW
Danger at start
54
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
304MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

26 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Jul26 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

2526

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
63km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.9 mm on 4 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Carcastillo 2,408 inhabitants · 0.0 km from the town where it started
    365 ha reached on 25 Jul
    3.8 %

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 areas81 %
  • Coniferous forest19 %

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)
25 Jul 31.3 °C 34 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
26 Jul 28.4 °C 37 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
27 Jul after 31.4 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
28 Jul after 34.4 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
29 Jul after 29.3 °C 42 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Jul after 32.6 °C 26 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Jul after 34.6 °C 30 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
1 Aug after 35.6 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
2 Aug after 39.5 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
3 Aug after 37.4 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 46
4 Aug after 37.7 °C 21 % 44 km/h 1.9 mm Very high 40

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jul 2022
After · 2 Aug 2022

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 25 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1029 µg/m³
23242526272829
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 · 13Every 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 Carcastillo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 25 July 2022 and 26 July 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 365 hectares (3.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Carcastillo (365 ha, 3.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.0 km of Carcastillo. 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 31.3 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 63 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, 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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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.