Glamoč fire, 20 March 2025 Glamoč
The fire started on 20 March 2025 in Glamoč, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 681 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 91th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 13 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2025, of 65.
The power measured by the satellite is low (17.3 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
- 681ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 20 Mar 2025 – 20 Mar 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 20 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 12
- in a single hotspot: 17 MW
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 102MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
20 Mar 2025 · 102 MW · 12
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: 17.3 mm on 24 Mar.
This area had burned before
98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 499 ha in 2016, 76 ha in 2019, 601 ha in 2020, 583 ha in 2021, 322 ha in 2023, 3 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 668 ha that had burned before.
- 563 ha Glamoč fire, March 2021 2,667 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 323 ha Glamoč fire, March 2020 403 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 322 ha Glamoč fire, March 2023 896 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 277 ha Glamoč fire, February 2020 769 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 273 ha Glamoč fire, December 2016 2,146 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 226 ha Glamoč fire, March 2016 229 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 71 ha Glamoč fire, March 2019 170 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 20 ha Glamoč fire, March 2021 861 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 started682 ha reached on 20 Mar0.6 %
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 land100 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar | 13.9 °C | 29 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 21 Mar after | 14.3 °C | 42 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 22 Mar after | 10.4 °C | 47 % | 62 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very low 3 |
| 23 Mar after | 11.6 °C | 77 % | 67 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very low 1 |
| 24 Mar after | 11.9 °C | 82 % | 46 km/h | 17.3 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 19 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 12Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 3,526 haBosansko Grahovo20 March 2022 · 8 days · 16 km away
- 8,212 haBosansko Grahovo6 April 2020 · 8 days · 26 km away
- 8,657 haBosansko GrahovoAugust 2026 · 12 days · 27 km away
- 4,123 haGlamoč9 April 2020 · 6 days · 28 km away
- 3,400 haGrad Knin13 August 2026 · 9 days · 30 km away
- 5,948 haDinara Općina CivljaneApril 2020 · 7 days · 32 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Glamoč fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 20 March 2025 and 20 March 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 681 hectares (6.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Glamoč (682 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 13.9 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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. 12 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 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.