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Hinova fire, November 2024 Hinova, Livezile

Out · last measured on 5 Nov 2024

The fire started on 5 November 2024 in Hinova, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 184 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 38th largest in Mehedinți since 2016 (of 85 with a page). Number 33 in Romania in 2024, of 92.

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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
184ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
5 Nov 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
5 Nov
2024
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Natura 2000
23%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

12°high
30km/h · peak gust
33%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.9 mm on 11 Nov.

This area had burned before

85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 156 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Hinova where it started
    171 ha
    2.4 %
  2. Livezile
    13 ha
    0.2 %

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

  • Agricultural areas97 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.3 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 23 %

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)
5 Nov 12.2 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
6 Nov after 12.6 °C 31 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
7 Nov after 14.5 °C 24 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
8 Nov after 15.6 °C 17 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
9 Nov after 8.6 °C 61 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
10 Nov after 9.5 °C 49 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
11 Nov after 5.1 °C 82 % 19 km/h 6.9 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Oct 2024
After · 12 Nov 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 7 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 32 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak32 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1034 µg/m³
Optical depth0.42
345678
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 Hinova fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 5 November 2024 and 5 November 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 184 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hinova (171 ha, 2.4 %); Livezile (13 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 12.2 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Romania (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 · 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.