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East Mani fire, July 2017 Ανατολικής Μάνης · East Mani

Out · last detection 3 Jul 2017, 00:43 UTC

The fire started on 1 July 2017 in East Mani, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,341 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Peloponnese since 2016 (of 40 with a page). Number 3 in Greece in 2017, of 32.

The power measured by the satellite is low (20.5 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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Burnt area
2,341ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
1 Jul 2017 – 3 Jul 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
1 Jul
2017
Heat detections
49
in a single hotspot: 20 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
79MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jul3 Jul
3 Jul 2017

How it evolved, day by day

1 Jul 2017 · 68 MW · 12 2 Jul 2017 · 4 MW · 3 3 Jul 2017 · 163 MW · 34
1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

40°high
78km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 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.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.5% of the area of London (23 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. East Mani Ανατολικής Μάνης where it started
    2,262 ha reached on 1 Jul
    3.5 %

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

  • Agricultural areas79 %
  • Other natural land18 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub2.6 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 99 %

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)
1 Jul 39.2 °C 13 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
2 Jul 39.8 °C 9 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
3 Jul 29.9 °C 29 % 78 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
4 Jul after 28.1 °C 35 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Jul after 27.3 °C 35 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Jul after 28.9 °C 27 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
7 Jul after 31.6 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
8 Jul after 31.3 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Jul after 31.9 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Jul after 33.0 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Jul after 32.9 °C 32 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Jul after 33.7 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
13 Jul after 35.0 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jun 2017
After · 10 Jul 2017

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 2 July 2017 the air beside the fire reached 38 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 24: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak38 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1062 µg/m³
2930123456
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 · 49Every 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 East Mani fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 July 2017 and 3 July 2017: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,341 hectares (23.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered East Mani (2,262 ha, 3.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.8 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 78 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 56, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Greece (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 · 199 · 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.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 49 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.