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Filiates fire, 6 August 2017 δημοτική ενότητα Φιλιατών · Filiates

Out · last detection 8 Aug 2017, 10:50 UTC

The fire started on 6 August 2017 in Filiates, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 209 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 9th largest in Epirus since 2016 (of 19 with a page). Number 16 in Greece in 2017, of 32.

The power measured by the satellite is low (15.8 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
209ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
6 Aug 2017 – 8 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Aug
2017
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start
21
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
49MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Aug 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Aug8 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

678

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
27km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 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. Filiates δημοτική ενότητα Φιλιατών 8,270 inhabitants where it started
    206 ha reached on 6 Aug
    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 land99 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.4 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 97 %

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)
6 Aug 30.6 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
7 Aug 30.8 °C 44 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
8 Aug 30.9 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
9 Aug after 31.8 °C 36 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
10 Aug after 31.2 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
11 Aug after 31.0 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
12 Aug after 27.7 °C 42 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Aug after 23.8 °C 39 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
14 Aug after 25.7 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
15 Aug after 26.7 °C 37 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
16 Aug after 28.2 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
17 Aug after 28.8 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
18 Aug after 28.4 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jul 2017
After · 15 Aug 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 9 August 2017 the air beside the fire reached 31 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak31 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM1039 µg/m³
34567891011
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 · 10Every 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 Filiates fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 August 2017 and 8 August 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 209 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Filiates (206 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.9 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.
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

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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 (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.