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Karystos fire, 13 August 2016 δημοτική ενότητα Καρύστου Εύβοιας · Karystos

Out · last detection 13 Aug 2016, 11:40 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2016 in Karystos, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 202 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 37th largest in Central Greece since 2016 (of 53 with a page). Number 24 in Greece in 2016, of 33.

Burnt area
202ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
13 Aug 2016 – 14 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2016
Heat detections
14
in a single hotspot: 41 MW
Danger at start
45
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
344MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug14 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

13

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

The weather it burned in

26°high
82km/h · peak gust
36%lowest humidity

It had gone 45 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. Karystos δημοτική ενότητα Καρύστου Εύβοιας 7,483 inhabitants where it started
    202 ha reached on 13 Aug
    0.3 %

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

  • Other natural land64 %
  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Mixed forest3.5 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub2.0 %

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)
13 Aug 25.4 °C 43 % 77 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Aug 26.2 °C 36 % 82 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
15 Aug after 26.9 °C 38 % 80 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 Aug after 27.9 °C 37 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Aug after 30.1 °C 29 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
18 Aug after 31.8 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Aug after 28.6 °C 44 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Aug after 28.9 °C 51 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
21 Aug after 29.4 °C 45 % 68 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Aug after 32.0 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
23 Aug after 30.5 °C 51 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Aug after 28.2 °C 53 % 74 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2016
After · 21 Aug 2016

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 11 August 2016 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1038 µg/m³
11121314151617
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 Karystos fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 August 2016 and 14 August 2016: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 202 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Karystos (202 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.2 °C, humidity dropped to 36 % and gusts hit 82 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Greece (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 · 199

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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 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.