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Kileler fire, September 2018 δημοτική ενότητα Κιλελέρ · Kileler

Out · last detection 23 Sept 2018, 12:25 UTC

The fire started on 23 September 2018 in Kileler, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 192 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 12th largest in Thessaly since 2016 (of 18 with a page). Number 10 in Greece in 2018, of 17.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
192ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
23 Sept 2018 – 23 Sept 2018
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
23 Sept
2018
Heat detections
13
in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index
Energy released
104MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Sept23 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

23

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
18km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.6 mm on 28 Sept.

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
    192 ha reached on 23 Sept
    0.2 %

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 land55 %
  • Agricultural areas45 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 85 %

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)
23 Sept 33.0 °C 22 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
24 Sept after 35.1 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
25 Sept after 22.9 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Sept after 18.7 °C 26 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Sept after 19.1 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
28 Sept after 19.7 °C 41 % 25 km/h 2.6 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Sept 2018
After · 30 Sept 2018

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 22 September 2018 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1024 µg/m³
212223242526
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 · 13Every 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 23 September 2018 and 23 September 2018: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 192 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Kileler (192 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 18 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.