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CRISAN fire, 6 February 2022 CRISAN

Out · last detection 6 Feb 2022, 10:45 UTC

The fire started on 6 February 2022 in CRISAN, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 294 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

This record is fire in the reed beds of the Danube Delta, not a forest fire. Thousands of hectares of reed burn in the delta every year, mostly between January and April, and many of these burns are deliberate. That is why it is left out of the fire rankings.

The power measured by the satellite is low (24.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
294ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
6 Feb 2022 – 6 Feb 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Feb
2022
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 24 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
24MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Feb6 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

6

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

The weather it burned in

8°high
35km/h · peak gust
51%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 8 Feb.

This area had burned before

75% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 221 ha in 2020.

What happened to each town

  1. CRISAN 1,092 inhabitants · 16.8 km from the town where it started
    293 ha reached on 6 Feb
    0.8 %

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

  • Other natural land100 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

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.

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)
6 Feb 7.9 °C 51 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 1
7 Feb after 9.2 °C 59 % 34 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 1
8 Feb after 6.6 °C 64 % 69 km/h 1.0 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jan 2022
After · 13 Feb 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 5 February 2022 the air beside the fire reached 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak29 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1033 µg/m³
456789
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 · 1Every 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 CRISAN fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 February 2022 and 6 February 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 294 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered CRISAN (293 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 16.8 km of CRISAN. 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 7.9 °C, humidity dropped to 51 % and gusts hit 35 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.

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 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.