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Glamoč fire, 23 January 2020 Glamoč

Out · last measured on 23 Jan 2020

The fire started on 23 January 2020 in Glamoč, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 109 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 486th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 173 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2020, of 183.

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
109ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
23 Jan 2020 – 23 Jan 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
23 Jan
2020
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

6°high
25km/h · peak gust
53%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.3 mm on 26 Jan.

This area had burned before

33% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 24 ha in 2016, 32 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 36 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Glamoč where it started
    109 ha
    0.1 %

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 land100 %

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)
23 Jan 5.8 °C 53 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
24 Jan after 7.9 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
25 Jan after 8.3 °C 80 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 1
26 Jan after 7.3 °C 79 % 24 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jan 2020
After · 30 Jan 2020

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Other fires nearby

All fires in Bosnia & Herzegovina ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Glamoč fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 23 January 2020 and 23 January 2020: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 109 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Glamoč (109 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 5.8 °C, humidity dropped to 53 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very low.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (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: 123 · 112

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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 (Public Domain). 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.