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Golan fire, 3 June 2024 Golan

Out · last measured on 3 Jun 2024

The fire started on 3 June 2024 in Golan, Israel, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,037 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

Number 2 in Israel in 2024, of 40.

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
1,037ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
3 Jun 2024 – 3 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
subdistricts
Started on
3 Jun
2024
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

41°high
31km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 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. Golan where it started
    1,039 ha
    0.9 %

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

  • Agricultural areas93 %
  • Other natural land7.2 %

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)
3 Jun 40.7 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Jun after 40.0 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Jun after 37.0 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 Jun after 38.7 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Jun after 39.4 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Jun after 37.1 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Jun after 33.1 °C 40 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Jun after 32.7 °C 45 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jun after 33.9 °C 43 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
12 Jun after 36.0 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Jun after 39.0 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 May 2024
After · 10 Jun 2024

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 · Copernicus

On 6 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 42 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 33: 2.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak42 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1073 µg/m³
Optical depth0.51
123456
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Golan fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 June 2024 and 3 June 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,037 hectares (10.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Golan (1,039 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.7 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Israel (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: 102

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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 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.