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Konjic fire, 16 July 2022 Konjic

Out · last detection 19 Jul 2022, 01:45 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2022 in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 224 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 271th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 70 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2022, of 144.

The power measured by the satellite is low (20.0 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
224ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
16 Jul 2022 – 19 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
16 Jul
2022
Heat detections
19
in a single hotspot: 20 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
98MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul19 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

16171819

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
46km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.6 mm on 24 Jul.

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
    223 ha reached on 16 Jul
    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 woodland43 %

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)
16 Jul 31.8 °C 24 % 38 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 19
17 Jul 28.1 °C 36 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
18 Jul 27.5 °C 21 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Jul 28.8 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jul after 31.5 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Jul after 33.2 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Jul after 34.7 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Jul after 34.7 °C 17 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
24 Jul after 32.5 °C 27 % 37 km/h 2.6 mm Moderate 13

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2022
After · 26 Jul 2022

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 · 19Every 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 16 July 2022 and 19 July 2022: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 224 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Konjic (223 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
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.