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Dasht-e-Azadegan fire, June 2018 Dasht-e-Azadegan, Hoveyzeh

Out · last detection 15 Jun 2018, 10:15 UTC

The fire started on 15 June 2018 in Dasht-e-Azadegan, Iran, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,028 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 37th largest in Khuzestan since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 13 in Iran in 2018, of 14.

Burnt area
1,028ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
15 Jun 2018 – 15 Jun 2018
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
15 Jun
2018
Heat detections
31
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
93
Very extreme · FWI index
Energy released
3.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Jun15 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

15

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

The weather it burned in

43°high
52km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 35 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Dasht-e-Azadegan where it started
    762 ha
    0.4 %
  2. Hoveyzeh
    269 ha
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS 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.

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)
15 Jun 43.1 °C 11 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 93
16 Jun after 43.2 °C 7 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 102
17 Jun after 44.8 °C 9 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 108
18 Jun after 45.5 °C 9 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 109
19 Jun after 43.9 °C 7 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 112
20 Jun after 45.3 °C 7 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 117
21 Jun after 44.0 °C 8 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 109
22 Jun after 44.3 °C 10 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
23 Jun after 42.3 °C 12 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 92
24 Jun after 45.5 °C 8 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
25 Jun after 47.4 °C 8 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 74

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jun 2018
After · 22 Jun 2018

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 0Every 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 Dasht-e-Azadegan fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 15 June 2018 and 15 June 2018: 1 day between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,028 hectares (10.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dasht-e-Azadegan (762 ha, 0.4 %); Hoveyzeh (269 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 43.1 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 93, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Iran (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: 125

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. 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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.