Glamoč fire, March 2024 Glamoč, Šipovo
The fire started on 30 March 2024 in Glamoč, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,821 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 15th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 2 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024, of 87.
The power measured by the satellite is low (10.2 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
- 2,821ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 30 Mar 2024 – 1 Apr 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 30 Mar
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 27
- in a single hotspot: 10 MW
- Danger at start
- 1
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 29MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
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 one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.9 mm on 2 Apr.
This area had burned before
73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 67 ha in 2016, 167 ha in 2017, 2,000 ha in 2020, 43 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,067 ha that had burned before.
- 1,554 ha Glamoč fire, April 2020 4,123 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 414 ha Glamoč fire, March 2020 2,441 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 167 ha Glamoč fire, March 2017 1,863 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 67 ha Glamoč fire, April 2016 562 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 43 ha Glamoč fire, March 2022 162 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Glamoč where it started2,769 ha reached on 29 Mar2.6 %
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53 ha0.1 %
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 land86 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland7.7 %
- Mixed forest2.8 %
- Coniferous forest2.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar | 17.3 °C | 33 % | 65 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 31 Mar | 16.9 °C | 42 % | 80 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 1 Apr | 18.0 °C | 50 % | 97 km/h | 7.6 mm | Very low 0 |
| 2 Apr after | 10.4 °C | 77 % | 58 km/h | 10.9 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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 1 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 38 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 24: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 27Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 4,123 haGlamoč9 April 2020 · 6 days · 4 km away
- 7,008 haGlamočAugust 2017 · 6 days · 11 km away
- 3,526 haBosansko Grahovo20 March 2022 · 6 days · 33 km away
- 4,742 haLivno2 August 2017 · 6 days · 36 km away
- 8,212 haBosansko Grahovo6 April 2020 · 6 days · 39 km away
- 3,327 haOpćina HrvaceAugust 2017 · 8 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Glamoč fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 30 March 2024 and 1 April 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,821 hectares (28.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Glamoč (2,769 ha, 2.6 %); Šipovo (53 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 18.0 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 97 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 3, 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 27 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections 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.
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.