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Koper / Capodistria fire, August 2016 Koper / Capodistria, Hrpelje - Kozina

Out · last detection 7 Aug 2016, 11:55 UTC

The fire started on 7 August 2016 in Koper / Capodistria, Slovenia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 170 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

The only fire in Slovenia with a page in 2016.

Burnt area
170ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
7 Aug 2016 – 8 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
7 Aug
2016
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 36 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
192MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Aug8 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

7 Aug 2016 · 192 MW · 10

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

The weather it burned in

28°high
62km/h · peak gust
36%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 32.2 mm on 10 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Koper / Capodistria where it started
    165 ha reached on 7 Aug
    0.5 %
  2. Hrpelje - Kozina
    5 ha reached on 7 Aug
    0.0 %

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 areas68 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland32 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

  • ZEPA + LIC Kras SI3000276 · SI5000023

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)
7 Aug 26.1 °C 38 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
8 Aug 27.7 °C 36 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
9 Aug after 28.9 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
10 Aug after 21.1 °C 62 % 48 km/h 32.2 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Jul 2016
After · 15 Aug 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.

Detections table · 10Every 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 Koper / Capodistria fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 August 2016 and 8 August 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 170 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Koper / Capodistria (165 ha, 0.5 %); Hrpelje - Kozina (5 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.7 °C, humidity dropped to 36 % and gusts hit 62 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 Slovenia (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

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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 ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.