Burned area
satellite only575ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 1 April 2025
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RO · Romania · –
Ceru-Băcăinți fire, March 2025 Ceru-Băcăinți, Zlatna
Out · last detection 10 Mar 2025, 01:50 UTC
The fire started on 4 March 2025 in Ceru-Băcăinți, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 575 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 2th largest in Alba since 2016 (of 27 with a page). Number 15 in Romania in 2025, of 137.
The power measured by the satellite is low (11.7 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 only7days
4 Mar 2025 to 10 Mar 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 10 Mar 2025, 01:50 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 only4 Mar 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025
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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 only9
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 12 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025 – 10 Mar 2025
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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 only34MW
Total radiative power on 7 March 2025; hotspots that day: 4.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 7 Mar 2025
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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
model0.3FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 1.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025, 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
model19.4°C · 10% RH
High of 19.4 °C and minimum humidity of 10% on 7 March 2025; gusts of 25 km/h on 10 March 2025.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 4 Mar 2025 – 10 Mar 2025
- 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 weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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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
- 575 ha
- Dates
- 4 Mar 2025 – 10 Mar 2025
- Name
- Ceru-Băcăinți
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/ceru-bacainti-2025-03?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
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire ceru-bacainti-2025-03.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-04 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | -5 | 31 | 6.2 | 17.6 | 0 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-05 | 0 | 0 | 14.6 | -3.4 | 20 | 6.2 | 16.9 | 0 | 0.8 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-06 | 2 | 2 | 17 | -2.5 | 16 | 10.6 | 20.9 | 0 | 4.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-07 | 4 | 34 | 19.4 | -0.6 | 10 | 9.3 | 19.4 | 0 | 6.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-08 | 0 | 0 | 18.7 | -1.1 | 14 | 9.3 | 18 | 0 | 6.5 | bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-09 | 0 | 0 | 18.9 | -1.5 | 9 | 5.6 | 14.4 | 0 | 7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-10 | 3 | 4 | 19.1 | 1.6 | 10 | 10.6 | 25.2 | 0 | 9.4 | bajo | 1 |
| 2025-03-11 | 0 | 0 | 14.2 | 8.1 | 38 | 19.4 | 50.8 | 5.3 | 6.2 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 575ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 7days
- 4 Mar 2025 – 10 Mar 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 4 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 9
- in a single hotspot: 12 MW
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 13MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
4 Mar10 Mar
10 Mar 2025
How it evolved, day by day
6 Mar
7 Mar
10 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
19°high
25km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.3 mm on 11 Mar.
This area had burned before
50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 252 ha in 2022, 170 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 290 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Bucharest boundary: geoBoundaries · World Bank (CC BY 4.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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575 ha reached on 6 Mar12 %
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Zlatna 6,652 inhabitants · 12.9 km from the centre0 ha0.0 %
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
- Other natural land69 %
- Broadleaved forest25 %
- Agricultural areas6.1 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Mar | 11.9 °C | 31 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 5 Mar | 14.6 °C | 20 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 6 Mar | 17.0 °C | 16 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 7 Mar | 19.4 °C | 10 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 8 Mar | 18.7 °C | 14 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 9 Mar | 18.9 °C | 9 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 10 Mar | 19.1 °C | 10 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 11 Mar after | 14.2 °C | 38 % | 51 km/h | 5.3 mm | Low 6 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 0.3, a minimum humidity of 31% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 26.
FWI at the start
0.3
Minimum humidity
31 %
Days without rain
1
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Ceru-Băcăinți fire, March 2025
575 ha
7 days
FWI 0.3
Min. humidity 31 %
Vorța fire, February 2025
947 ha
3 days
FWI 0.6
Min. humidity 30 %
45 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 28 Feb.
Sichevița fire, March 2022
167 ha
7 days
FWI 0.4
Min. humidity 31 %
180 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 12.0 mm on 31 Mar.
Cărpinet fire, February 2024
170 ha
2 days
FWI 1.9
Min. humidity 32 %
77 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 2 Mar.
Vorța fire, February 2024
132 ha
1 day
FWI 3.2
Min. humidity 30 %
44 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 2 Mar.
Berbești fire, March 2022
141 ha
1 day
FWI 0.3
Min. humidity 29 %
129 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 174 ha
- median area
- 4 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 5.4 mm
- rain at the end (median; 23 of 26 had it)
It was 3.3 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 7 days, against 2 days.
Only 5 of its 26 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 3 of 26, 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 5.4 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
5.3 mmfirst rain
11 Marthe day after it ended
25km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 10 Mar, and on 11 Mar 5.3 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 23 of 26, with a median of 5.4 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 · 25 Feb 2025
After · 17 Mar 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 5 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
WHO 15
2 Mar4 Mar6 Mar8 Mar
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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)
Detections table · 9Every 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ceru-Băcăinți fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 March 2025 to 10 March 2025 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 4 March 2025 to 6 March 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 575 hectares (5.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ceru-Băcăinți (575 ha, 12 %); Zlatna (0 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Ceru-Băcăinți and reached its centre: the point marking it was inside the burnt area or less than 500 metres from it. That does not mean houses burned.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 19.4 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, class 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: 26. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 174 ha; 4 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 5 of its 26 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 3 of 26, 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 5.4 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.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 4 March 2025 to 6 March 2025. 9 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.
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.