Burned area
satellite only457ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
HR · Croatia · –
Grad Šibenik fire, July 2019 Grad Šibenik, Općina Bilice
Out · last measured on 28 Jul 2019
The fire started on 27 July 2019 in Grad Šibenik, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 457 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 25th largest in Šibenik-Knin since 2016 (of 56 with a page). Number 5 in Croatia in 2019, of 32.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only2days
27 Jul 2019 to 28 Jul 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 Jul 2019 – 28 Jul 2019
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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 only27 Jul 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 Jul 2019
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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
model43.9FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 13.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 27 Jul 2019, 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
model31.4°C · 46% RH
High of 31.4 °C and minimum humidity of 46% on 27 July 2019; gusts of 76 km/h on 28 July 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 27 Jul 2019 – 28 Jul 2019
- 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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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 457 ha
- Dates
- 27 Jul 2019 – 28 Jul 2019
- Name
- Grad Šibenik
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/grad-sibenik-2019-07?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.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire grad-sibenik-2019-07.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 31.4 | 23.7 | 46 | 24.9 | 48.2 | 0 | 43.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2019-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 20.2 | 61 | 35.1 | 75.6 | 31.2 | 8.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2019-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 27.7 | 19.9 | 57 | 14.1 | 27.4 | 5.1 | 0.9 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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Sources for this page: EFFIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), ERA5 (ECMWF/Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
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
- 457ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 27 Jul 2019 – 28 Jul 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Jul
- 2019
- Danger at start
- 44
- Very high · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
31°high
76km/h · peak gust
46%lowest humidity
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.1 mm on 29 Jul.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Grad Šibenik where it started333 ha0.8 %
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124 ha5.0 %
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
- Sclerophyllous scrub43 %
- Other natural land27 %
- Artificial surfaces8.9 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland8.7 %
- Agricultural areas7.6 %
- Mixed forest4.8 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul | 31.4 °C | 46 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 28 Jul | 25.7 °C | 61 % | 76 km/h | 31.2 mm | Low 8 |
| 29 Jul after | 27.7 °C | 57 % | 27 km/h | 5.1 mm | Very low 1 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 43.9, a minimum humidity of 46% and 13 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 11.
FWI at the start
43.9
Minimum humidity
46 %
Days without rain
13
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Grad Šibenik fire, July 2019
457 ha
2 days
FWI 43.9
Min. humidity 46 %
Grad Šibenik fire, July 2023
635 ha
2 days
FWI 35.0
Min. humidity 44 %
14 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Općina Seget fire, August 2021
1,419 ha
3 days
FWI 38.7
Min. humidity 52 %
32 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 5 Aug.
Općina Kistanje fire, July 2025
223 ha
1 day
FWI 39.7
Min. humidity 40 %
25 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.2 mm on 26 Jul.
Grad Šibenik fire, July 2021
377 ha
1 day
FWI 43.5
Min. humidity 35 %
8 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.1 mm on 5 Aug.
Grad Šibenik fire, August 2017
152 ha
1 day
FWI 49.1
Min. humidity 36 %
15 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.5 mm on 12 Aug.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 11. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
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
5.1 mmfirst rain
29 Julthe day after it ended
76km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 28 Jul, and on 29 Jul 5.1 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.
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 · 20 Jul 2019
After · 4 Aug 2019
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 27 July 2019 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
WHO 15
25 Jul27 Jul29 Jul31 Jul
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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
- 2,909 haGrad VodiceJuly 2022 · 2 days · 11 km away
- 2,092 haOpćina Promina17 August 2017 · 8 days · 26 km away
- 3,876 haGrad Benkovac20 August 2017 · 5 days · 31 km away
- 2,041 haOpćina PakoštaneJuly 2017 · 2 days · 35 km away
- 2,304 haOpćina MućMarch 2022 · 11 days · 37 km away
- 3,232 haGrad VrlikaAugust 2017 · 10 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Grad Šibenik fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 27 July 2019 and 28 July 2019: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 457 hectares (4.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Grad Šibenik (333 ha, 0.8 %); Općina Bilice (124 ha, 5.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 31.4 °C, humidity dropped to 46 % and gusts hit 76 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.
- 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.
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
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.
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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.