Livno fire, 31 July 2017 Livno
The fire started on 31 July 2017 in Livno, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 4,742 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 8th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 3 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2017, of 102.
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- Burnt area
- 4,742ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 12days
- 31 Jul 2017 – 11 Aug 2017
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 31 Jul
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 531
- in a single hotspot: 176 MW
- Danger at start
- 22
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 538MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.4 mm on 12 Aug.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Livno where it started4,742 ha reached on 1 Aug4.9 %
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
- Scrub and transitional woodland49 %
- Other natural land41 %
- Broadleaved forest8.8 %
- Agricultural areas0.9 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Aug | 32.3 °C | 27 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 3 Aug | 31.4 °C | 32 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 4 Aug | 32.2 °C | 29 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 5 Aug | 32.1 °C | 26 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 6 Aug | 30.7 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 1.6 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 7 Aug | 26.6 °C | 45 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 8 Aug | 29.2 °C | 36 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 9 Aug | 31.6 °C | 25 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 10 Aug | 32.5 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Aug | 28.0 °C | 37 % | 48 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 28 |
| 12 Aug after | 19.7 °C | 56 % | 36 km/h | 12.4 mm | Very low 1 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 531Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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- 7,008 haGlamočAugust 2017 · 10 days · 31 km away
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- 4,123 haGlamoč9 April 2020 · 6 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Livno fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 31 July 2017 to 11 August 2017 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 August 2017 to 7 August 2017.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 4,742 hectares (47.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Livno (4,742 ha, 4.9 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 32.3 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 7 August 2017 → 11 August 2017.
- Start date: 2 August 2017 → 31 July 2017.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 2 August 2017 to 7 August 2017. 531 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.