Grad Solin fire, August 2024 Grad Solin, Općina Klis
The fire started on 11 August 2024 in Grad Solin, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 121 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 47th largest in Split-Dalmatia since 2016 (of 48 with a page). Number 12 in Croatia in 2024, of 14.
The power measured by the satellite is low (2.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 121ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 11 Aug 2024 – 12 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 11 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 3 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 9MW
- sum of detected power
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 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 14.3 mm on 18 Aug.
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 Solin where it started104 ha reached on 12 Aug3.0 %
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17 ha reached on 12 Aug0.1 %
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
- Sclerophyllous scrub36 %
- Other natural land32 %
- Coniferous forest23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland7.3 %
- Broadleaved forest2.4 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA Mosor, Kozjak i Trogirska zagora HR1000027
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug | 28.1 °C | 54 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 12 Aug | 27.9 °C | 62 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 13 Aug after | 27.9 °C | 57 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 14 Aug after | 27.4 °C | 59 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 15 Aug after | 27.9 °C | 56 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 16 Aug after | 28.5 °C | 62 % | 26 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 17 Aug after | 27.8 °C | 61 % | 23 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 18 Aug after | 26.8 °C | 66 % | 33 km/h | 14.3 mm | Very low 1 |
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 13 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 11 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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 5,122 haGrad OmišJuly 2017 · 3 days · 10 km away
- 3,232 haGrad VrlikaAugust 2017 · 6 days · 25 km away
- 3,992 haOpćina NerežišćaSeptember 2026 · 3 days · 29 km away
- 3,636 haGrad VrlikaApril 2020 · 6 days · 30 km away
- 3,327 haOpćina HrvaceAugust 2017 · 6 days · 33 km away
- 4,742 haLivno2 August 2017 · 6 days · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Grad Solin fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 11 August 2024 and 12 August 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 121 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Grad Solin (104 ha, 3.0 %); Općina Klis (17 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.1 °C, humidity dropped to 54 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, class Moderate.
- 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
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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 (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.