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فريانة fire, June 2017 فريانة, فوسانة, القصرين الجنوبية

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2017, 01:22 UTC

The fire started on 30 June 2017 in فريانة, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 444 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 17th largest in Kasserine since 2016 (of 32 with a page). Number 11 in Tunisia in 2017, of 31.

Burnt area
444ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
30 Jun 2017 – 1 Jul 2017
Municipalities hit
3
delegations
Started on
30 Jun
2017
Heat detections
25
in a single hotspot: 79 MW
Danger at start
64
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

1 Jul 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jun1 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

301

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

The weather it burned in

37°high
67km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 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. فريانة where it started
    325 ha reached on 30 Jun
    0.3 %
  2. فوسانة
    90 ha reached on 30 Jun
    0.1 %
  3. القصرين الجنوبية
    30 ha reached on 30 Jun
    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

  • Coniferous forest90 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland5.0 %
  • Other natural land4.1 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

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)
30 Jun 36.7 °C 10 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
1 Jul 28.2 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
2 Jul after 25.3 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Jul after 25.8 °C 31 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Jul after 29.0 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Jul after 31.5 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Jul after 32.0 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Jul after 31.8 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Jul after 33.1 °C 16 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Jul after 33.9 °C 13 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Jul after 35.9 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
11 Jul after 37.9 °C 12 % 32 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 · 23 Jun 2017
After · 8 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.

Detections table · 25Every 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 فريانة fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 30 June 2017 and 1 July 2017: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 444 hectares (4.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: فريانة (325 ha, 0.3 %); فوسانة (90 ha, 0.1 %); القصرين الجنوبية (30 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 67 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (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: 198

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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 ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.