How long did the Krivogashtani fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 August 2017 to 5 August 2017 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 August 2017 to 4 August 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 163 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Krivogashtani (93 ha, 1.0 %); Krushevo (69 ha, 0.4 %); Dolneni (1 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Krivogashtani and came within 3.6 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.

Where does this data come from?

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

MK · North Macedonia · 2017-08-03 → 2017-08-05

Krivogashtani fire, August 2017 Општина Кривогаштани · Krivogashtani, Krushevo, Dolneni

Out · last detection 5 Aug 2017, 00:24 UTC

The fire started on 3 August 2017 in Krivogashtani, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 163 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 58th largest in Pelagonia since 2016 (of 76 with a page). Number 35 in North Macedonia in 2017, of 44.

The power measured by the satellite is low (17.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area: 163ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 3days; 3 Aug 2017 – 5 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 3 Aug; 2017
Heat detections: 10; in a single hotspot: 17 MW
Danger at start: 38; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 19MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Aug5 Aug

Play back 5 Aug 2017

How it evolved, day by day

3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

36°high

27km/h · peak gust

9%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 13 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Krivogashtani Општина Кривогаштани 5,167 inhabitants · 3.6 km from the centre where it started

93 ha reached on 3 Aug

1.0 %
Krushevo Општина Крушево 8,385 inhabitants · 23.2 km from the centre

69 ha reached on 3 Aug

0.4 %
Dolneni Општина Долнени 13,126 inhabitants · 14.2 km from the centre

1 ha

0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Agricultural areas77 %
Scrub and transitional woodland23 %

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)
3 Aug	35.6 °C	9 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
4 Aug	36.3 °C	10 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
5 Aug	36.9 °C	12 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
6 Aug after	36.4 °C	19 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
7 Aug after	34.5 °C	25 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
8 Aug after	34.3 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.5 mm	High 33
9 Aug after	35.5 °C	20 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
10 Aug after	35.9 °C	21 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
11 Aug after	36.3 °C	23 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
12 Aug after	35.1 °C	18 %	57 km/h	0.2 mm	Very high 45
13 Aug after	20.9 °C	55 %	53 km/h	2.1 mm	Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 27 Jul 2017

After · 12 Aug 2017

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 7 August 2017 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³

Days over the guideline2 days

PM1035 µg/m³

WHO 15

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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 · 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Krivogashtani fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 August 2017 to 5 August 2017 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 August 2017 to 4 August 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 163 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Krivogashtani (93 ha, 1.0 %); Krushevo (69 ha, 0.4 %); Dolneni (1 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Krivogashtani and came within 3.6 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (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: 193 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 3 August 2017 to 4 August 2017. 10 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.

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