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Drvar fire, 19 March 2022 Drvar

Out · last measured on 22 Mar 2022

The fire started on 19 March 2022 in Drvar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 275 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 224th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 54 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2022, of 144.

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
275ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
19 Mar 2022 – 22 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
19 Mar
2022
Danger at start
3
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

13°high
50km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 30 Mar.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Drvar where it started
    275 ha
    0.5 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest86 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland9.0 %
  • Agricultural areas4.7 %

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)
19 Mar 10.0 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
20 Mar 8.7 °C 23 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
21 Mar 9.0 °C 21 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
22 Mar 12.6 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
23 Mar after 16.4 °C 21 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
24 Mar after 20.8 °C 8 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
25 Mar after 18.7 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
26 Mar after 19.0 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
27 Mar after 18.9 °C 21 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
28 Mar after 18.5 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
29 Mar after 16.1 °C 36 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
30 Mar after 12.7 °C 56 % 58 km/h 2.2 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Mar 2022
After · 29 Mar 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.

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Drvar fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 19 March 2022 and 22 March 2022: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 275 hectares (2.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Drvar (275 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 12.6 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class Low.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (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: 123 · 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 (Public Domain). 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.