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Favara fire, July 2021 Naro, Favara

Out · last detection 15 Jul 2021, 11:46 UTC

The fire started on 15 July 2021 in Favara, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 139 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 200th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 205 in Italy in 2021, of 291.

The power measured by the satellite is low (3.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
139ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Jul 2021 – 15 Jul 2021
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
15 Jul
2021
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 3 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Energy released
3MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Jul15 Jul

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

30°high
40km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 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. Naro 7,007 inhabitants · 7.2 km from the town
    103 ha
    0.5 %
  2. Favara 31,593 inhabitants · 2.8 km from the town where it started
    36 ha reached on 15 Jul
    0.4 %

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

  • Other natural land80 %
  • Agricultural areas20 %

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 Jul 30.2 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Jul after 28.0 °C 36 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
17 Jul after 26.6 °C 53 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jul after 27.7 °C 45 % 59 km/h 0.2 mm High 35
19 Jul after 28.2 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.4 mm High 29
20 Jul after 29.6 °C 42 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Jul after 29.6 °C 45 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
22 Jul after 32.2 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
23 Jul after 30.8 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Jul after 30.2 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
25 Jul after 30.2 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jul 2021
After · 22 Jul 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.

Detections table · 1Every 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 Favara fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 July 2021 and 15 July 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 139 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Naro (103 ha, 0.5 %); Favara (36 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.8 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 30.2 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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.