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Cutro fire, 16 July 2022 Cutro, Roccabernarda

Out · last measured on 16 Jul 2022

The fire started on 16 July 2022 in Cutro, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 177 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 24th largest in Crotone since 2016 (of 53 with a page). Number 86 in Italy in 2022, of 161.

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
177ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
16 Jul 2022 – 16 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
16 Jul
2022
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

30°high
29km/h · peak gust
45%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

31% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 9 ha in 2019, 38 ha in 2020, 8 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Cutro 9,385 inhabitants · 0.8 km from the town where it started
    170 ha
    1.3 %
  2. Roccabernarda
    7 ha
    0.1 %

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 areas41 %
  • Other natural land37 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
  • Artificial surfaces2.2 %

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)
16 Jul 30.3 °C 45 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
17 Jul after 31.4 °C 46 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
18 Jul after 31.5 °C 43 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
19 Jul after 29.6 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
20 Jul after 29.4 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
21 Jul after 30.5 °C 45 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
22 Jul after 31.0 °C 45 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Jul after 32.3 °C 43 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
24 Jul after 33.0 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
25 Jul after 33.4 °C 43 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Jul after 32.8 °C 50 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2022
After · 23 Jul 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 19 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
PM1024 µg/m³
141516171819
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Cutro fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2022 and 16 July 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 177 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cutro (170 ha, 1.3 %); Roccabernarda (7 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.8 km of Cutro. 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 30.3 °C, humidity dropped to 45 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.
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.