Burned area
satellite only126ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 6 April 2022
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HR · Croatia ·
Grad Gospić fire, 23 March 2022 Grad Gospić
Out · last measured on 23 Mar 2022
The fire started on 23 March 2022 in Grad Gospić, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 126 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 65th largest in Lika-Senj since 2016 (of 85 with a page). Number 48 in Croatia in 2022, of 59.
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Duration by satellite
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23 Mar 2022 to 23 Mar 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Mar 2022 – 23 Mar 2022
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only23 Mar 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Mar 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model9.2FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 16.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 23 Mar 2022, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model17.5°C · 20% RH
High of 17.5 °C and minimum humidity of 20% on 23 March 2022; gusts of 44 km/h on 23 March 2022.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 23 Mar 2022 – 23 Mar 2022
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 126 ha
- Dates
- 23 Mar 2022 – 23 Mar 2022
- Name
- Grad Gospić
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/grad-gospic-2022-03-3?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire grad-gospic-2022-03-3.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-23 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 0.3 | 20 | 13.9 | 44.3 | 0 | 9.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-03-24 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.8 | 15 | 7.6 | 20.5 | 0 | 9.6 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-25 | 0 | 0 | 19.4 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 17.3 | 0 | 10.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-26 | 0 | 0 | 19.5 | 2.2 | 20 | 7.4 | 22 | 0 | 10.8 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-27 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3.5 | 23 | 5.8 | 19.1 | 0 | 10.8 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-28 | 0 | 0 | 16.6 | 3.4 | 43 | 8 | 33.1 | 0 | 8.7 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-29 | 0 | 0 | 15.1 | 4.1 | 46 | 12.5 | 43.9 | 0 | 8.6 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-30 | 0 | 0 | 11.7 | 5.9 | 68 | 18.6 | 54.7 | 5.8 | 0.2 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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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
- 126ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 23 Mar 2022 – 23 Mar 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 23 Mar
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 9
- Low · FWI index
- Natura 2000
- 98%
- of the perimeter is protected land
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
18°high
44km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity
It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.8 mm on 30 Mar.
This area had burned before
23% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 29 ha in 2019.
What happened to each town
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Grad Gospić where it started126 ha0.1 %
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
- Scrub and transitional woodland56 %
- Agricultural areas44 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 98 %
- LIC Jadova HR2001272
- ZEPA Lička krška polja HR1000021
- LIC Ličko polje HR2001012
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
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 Mar | 17.5 °C | 20 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 24 Mar after | 20.0 °C | 15 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 25 Mar after | 19.4 °C | 20 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 26 Mar after | 19.5 °C | 20 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 27 Mar after | 19.0 °C | 23 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 28 Mar after | 16.6 °C | 43 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 29 Mar after | 15.1 °C | 46 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 30 Mar after | 11.7 °C | 68 % | 55 km/h | 5.8 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 9.2, a minimum humidity of 20% and 16 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
9.2
Minimum humidity
20 %
Days without rain
16
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Grad Gospić fire, 23 March 2022
126 ha
1 day
FWI 9.2
Min. humidity 20 %
Grad Gospić fire, April 2020
1,155 ha
6 days
FWI 10.2
Min. humidity 20 %
9 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.7 mm on 14 Apr.
Općina Gračac fire, April 2020
119 ha
3 days
FWI 8.8
Min. humidity 20 %
38 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 17.1 mm on 14 Apr.
Općina Gračac fire, April 2020
494 ha
3 days
FWI 11.9
Min. humidity 20 %
28 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 14.7 mm on 14 Apr.
Općina Krnjak fire, February 2019
144 ha
1 day
FWI 9.3
Min. humidity 21 %
89 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 5 Mar.
Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje fire, April 2020
213 ha
5 days
FWI 9.0
Min. humidity 20 %
179 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 16.2 mm on 14 Apr.
What happened to them
- 4 days
- median duration
- 198 ha
- median area
- 14 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 14.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 21 of 21 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 126 ha against a median of 198 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 4 days.
All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 14.8 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
5.8 mmfirst rain
30 Mar7 days after it ended
44km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 23 Mar, and on 30 Mar 5.8 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 21 of 21, with a median of 14.8 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 16 Mar 2022
After · 30 Mar 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 26 March 2022 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1043 µg/m³
WHO 15
21 Mar23 Mar25 Mar
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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)
Other fires nearby
- 2,218 haOpćina UdbinaApril 2020 · 7 days · 8 km away
- 1,155 haGrad Gospić8 April 2020 · 6 days · 9 km away
- 1,483 haOpćina Udbina25 February 2019 · 3 days · 10 km away
- 3,936 haOpćina Gračac22 March 2022 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 1,301 haOpćina Lovinac29 March 2017 · 5 days · 24 km away
- 1,823 haOpćina Jasenice13 August 2017 · 10 days · 28 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Grad Gospić fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 23 March 2022 and 23 March 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 126 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Grad Gospić (126 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 17.5 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, class Low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Croatia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 21. Their median duration was 4 days and their median area 198 ha; 14 % went past 1,000 ha. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 14.8 mm.
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: 112 · 193 · Emergency number and official warnings
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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. No 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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). 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.