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Jerte fire, July 2022 Jerte

Out · last detection 17 Jul 2022, 02:25 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2022 in Jerte, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 142 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 16 July 2022 at 22:35 and declared extinguished on 2 August 2022.

It is the 61th largest in Cáceres since 2016 (of 70 with a page). Number 137 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area
142ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
16 Jul 2022 – 17 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
16 Jul
2022
Heat detections
14
in a single hotspot: 45 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
152MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul17 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

17

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
48km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 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. Jerte 1,189 inhabitants · 1.8 km from the town where it started
    142 ha reached on 17 Jul
    2.4 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest63 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub35 %
  • Other natural land2.1 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

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.

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 16 July 2022 and burned 164 ha (the satellite measured 142 ha).

MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

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)
16 Jul 35.5 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
17 Jul 35.3 °C 18 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Jul after 32.2 °C 19 % 59 km/h 0.9 mm Very high 40
19 Jul after 27.6 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
20 Jul after 32.6 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jul after 33.5 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
22 Jul after 32.2 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
23 Jul after 33.4 °C 15 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jul after 33.4 °C 16 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
25 Jul after 31.8 °C 16 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
26 Jul after 31.0 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
27 Jul after 30.7 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2022
After · 24 Jul 2022

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 17 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak29 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1059 µg/m³
14151617181920
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)

Detections table · 14Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jerte fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2022 and 17 July 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 16 July 2022 at 22:35 and declared extinguished on 2 August 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 142 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jerte (142 ha, 2.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.8 km of Jerte. 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 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Spain (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

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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 ADM3 (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.