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Livno fire, April 2017 Glamoč, Livno, Bosansko Grahovo

Out · last detection 4 Apr 2017, 02:09 UTC

The fire started on 3 April 2017 in Livno, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 599 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 108th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 34 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2017, of 102.

The power measured by the satellite is low (6.8 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
599ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
3 Apr 2017 – 4 Apr 2017
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
3 Apr
2017
Heat detections
9
in a single hotspot: 7 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
25MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

4 Apr 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Apr4 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

34

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
48km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.4 mm on 5 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. Glamoč
    362 ha reached on 4 Apr
    0.3 %
  2. Livno where it started
    193 ha reached on 2 Apr
    0.2 %
  3. Bosansko Grahovo
    45 ha reached on 3 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

  • Other natural land61 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
  • Broadleaved forest12 %
  • Mixed forest9.2 %

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 Apr 15.3 °C 32 % 28 km/h 1.7 mm Very low 1
4 Apr 12.8 °C 46 % 48 km/h 3.2 mm Very low 0
5 Apr after 7.8 °C 79 % 30 km/h 6.4 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Mar 2017
After · 11 Apr 2017

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 · 9Every 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 Livno fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 April 2017 and 4 April 2017: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 599 hectares (6.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Glamoč (362 ha, 0.3 %); Livno (193 ha, 0.2 %); Bosansko Grahovo (45 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 15.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very 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.