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Kileler fire, July 2016 δημοτική ενότητα Κιλελέρ · Kileler

Out · last detection 7 Jul 2016, 11:34 UTC

The fire started on 6 July 2016 in Kileler, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 321 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Thessaly since 2016 (of 18 with a page). Number 18 in Greece in 2016, of 33.

Burnt area
321ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
6 Jul 2016 – 7 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Jul
2016
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 48 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
213MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Jul 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jul7 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

67

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
37km/h · peak gust
31%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 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. Kileler δημοτική ενότητα Κιλελέρ 3,963 inhabitants where it started
    321 ha reached on 6 Jul
    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

  • Agricultural areas83 %
  • Other natural land17 %

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.

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)
6 Jul 32.6 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Jul 32.1 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jul after 31.3 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
9 Jul after 33.7 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Jul after 36.0 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Jul after 33.2 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Jul after 34.0 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
13 Jul after 36.9 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Jul after 39.6 °C 19 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
15 Jul after 37.2 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Jul after 33.5 °C 22 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
17 Jul after 33.8 °C 19 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Jun 2016
After · 14 Jul 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 15 July 2016 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1043 µg/m³
45678910111213141516171819
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 · 8Every 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 Kileler fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 July 2016 and 7 July 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 321 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Kileler (321 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.6 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class 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.