How long did the Konjic fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 6 April 2016 and 7 April 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 206 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Konjic (205 ha, 0.2 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 23.5 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 10, class Low.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

BA · Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2016-04-06 → 2016-04-07

Konjic fire, April 2016 Konjic

Out · last detection 7 Apr 2016, 11:42 UTC

The fire started on 6 April 2016 in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 206 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 296th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 52 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2016, of 73.

Burnt area: 206ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 2days; 6 Apr 2016 – 7 Apr 2016
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 6 Apr; 2016
Heat detections: 17; in a single hotspot: 35 MW
Danger at start: 8; Low · FWI index
Energy released: 130MW; sum of detected power

Play back 7 Apr 2016

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Apr7 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

24°high

38km/h · peak gust

27%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.7 mm on 8 Apr.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Konjic where it started

205 ha reached on 6 Apr

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

Broadleaved forest56 %
Scrub and transitional woodland37 %
Mixed forest6.7 %

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 Apr	23.5 °C	27 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
7 Apr	22.8 °C	28 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
8 Apr after	16.9 °C	56 %	29 km/h	8.7 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 30 Mar 2016

After · 14 Apr 2016

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 17Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Konjic fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 6 April 2016 and 7 April 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 206 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Konjic (205 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 23.5 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 10, class Low.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (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: 123 · 112

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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 (Public Domain). 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.

Where it burned