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Grisolia fire, June 2017 Grisolia, Santa Maria del Cedro, Maierà

Out · last measured on 25 Jun 2017

The fire started on 22 June 2017 in Grisolia, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 291 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 28th largest in Cosenza since 2016 (of 145 with a page). Number 97 in Italy in 2017, of 361.

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
291ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
22 Jun 2017 – 25 Jun 2017
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
22 Jun
2017
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

28°high
31km/h · peak gust
58%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 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. Grisolia 2,208 inhabitants · 4.4 km from the town where it started
    254 ha reached on 29 Jun
    5.0 %
  2. Santa Maria del Cedro 5,002 inhabitants · 1.0 km from the town
    35 ha reached on 22 Jun
    1.9 %
  3. Maierà 1,118 inhabitants · 0.4 km from the town
    2 ha
    0.1 %

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

  • Agricultural areas64 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
  • Other natural land7.6 %
  • Artificial surfaces4.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.0 %

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)
22 Jun 27.5 °C 58 % 27 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 4
23 Jun 27.5 °C 66 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
24 Jun 27.2 °C 64 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Jun 27.9 °C 63 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
26 Jun after 28.3 °C 59 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
27 Jun after 32.0 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
28 Jun after 32.8 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Jun after 29.2 °C 38 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
30 Jun after 35.0 °C 23 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
1 Jul after 29.4 °C 45 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Jul after 26.0 °C 47 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Jul after 29.6 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jul after 29.9 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
5 Jul after 29.2 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2017
After · 2 Jul 2017

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 28 June 2017 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1037 µg/m³
202122232425262728
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 Grisolia fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 June 2017 and 25 June 2017: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 291 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Grisolia (254 ha, 5.0 %); Santa Maria del Cedro (35 ha, 1.9 %); Maierà (2 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.4 km of Maierà. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.9 °C, humidity dropped to 58 % and gusts hit 31 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 Italy (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 · 1515

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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 ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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.