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Favara fire, June 2021 Favara, Naro

Out · last measured on 15 Jun 2021

The fire started on 15 June 2021 in Favara, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 210 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 119th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 140 in Italy in 2021, of 291.

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
210ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Jun 2021 – 15 Jun 2021
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
15 Jun
2021
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

31°high
48km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.9 mm on 25 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Favara 31,593 inhabitants · 1.9 km from the town where it started
    201 ha
    2.4 %
  2. Naro 7,007 inhabitants · 8.6 km from the town
    10 ha
    0.0 %

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 areas59 %
  • Other natural land41 %

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)
15 Jun 31.2 °C 22 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
16 Jun after 25.7 °C 48 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Jun after 26.4 °C 38 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Jun after 26.6 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
19 Jun after 28.4 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jun after 33.6 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jun after 34.0 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
22 Jun after 32.5 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Jun after 34.8 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Jun after 37.8 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
25 Jun after 36.5 °C 24 % 30 km/h 1.9 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jun 2021
After · 22 Jun 2021

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 13 June 2021 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
131415161718
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Favara fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 June 2021 and 15 June 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 210 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Favara (201 ha, 2.4 %); Naro (10 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.9 km of Favara. 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 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very 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.