Glamoč fire, 15 March 2020 Glamoč, Drvar
The fire started on 15 March 2020 in Glamoč, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 318 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 198th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 70 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2020, of 183.
The power measured by the satellite is low (10.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 318ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 15 Mar 2020 – 18 Mar 2020
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 15 Mar
- 2020
- Heat detections
- 1
- in a single hotspot: 11 MW
- Danger at start
- 3
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 11MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
15 Mar 2020 · 11 MW · 1
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.2 mm on 22 Mar.
This area had burned before
20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 64 ha in 2016.
What happened to each town
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Glamoč where it started314 ha reached on 15 Mar0.3 %
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6 ha0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land83 %
- Agricultural areas12 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland5.0 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Mar | 13.3 °C | 25 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 17 Mar | 14.8 °C | 20 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 18 Mar | 13.1 °C | 43 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 19 Mar after | 15.6 °C | 28 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 20 Mar after | 15.9 °C | 35 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 21 Mar after | 13.9 °C | 39 % | 31 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 5 |
| 22 Mar after | 4.8 °C | 72 % | 54 km/h | 5.2 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 3,526 haBosansko Grahovo20 March 2022 · 8 days · 16 km away
- 8,657 haBosansko GrahovoAugust 2026 · 12 days · 24 km away
- 8,212 haBosansko Grahovo6 April 2020 · 8 days · 25 km away
- 5,948 haDinara Općina CivljaneApril 2020 · 7 days · 33 km away
- 3,528 haBihać20 March 2022 · 10 days · 35 km away
- 4,123 haGlamoč9 April 2020 · 6 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Glamoč fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 15 March 2020 to 18 March 2020 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 March 2020 to 18 March 2020.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 318 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Glamoč (314 ha, 0.3 %); Drvar (6 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 14.8 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 5, class 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 16 March 2020 → 15 March 2020.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 16 March 2020 to 18 March 2020. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.