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Konjic fire, 8 April 2020 Konjic

Out · last detection 9 Apr 2020, 11:10 UTC

The fire started on 8 April 2020 in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 128 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 440th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 148 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2020, of 183.

The power measured by the satellite is low (5.8 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
128ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
8 Apr 2020 – 8 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
8 Apr
2020
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 6 MW
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index
Energy released
17MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Apr 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Apr8 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

89

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

The weather it burned in

15°high
44km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.3 mm on 14 Apr.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Konjic where it started
    127 ha reached on 8 Apr
    0.1 %

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 forest92 %
  • Agricultural areas7.9 %

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)
8 Apr 14.8 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
9 Apr after 18.1 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
10 Apr after 18.0 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
11 Apr after 16.7 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
12 Apr after 18.7 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
13 Apr after 17.2 °C 36 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
14 Apr after 10.1 °C 59 % 43 km/h 13.3 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Apr 2020
After · 15 Apr 2020

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 · 7Every 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 Konjic fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 8 April 2020 and 8 April 2020: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 128 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Konjic (127 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 14.8 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, 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

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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.