Burned area
satellite only323ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 2 March 2022
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MK · North Macedonia · –
Makedonski Brod fire, 22 October 2019 Општина Македонски Брод · Makedonski Brod, Oslomej, Gostivar
Out · last detection 30 Oct 2019, 00:24 UTC
The fire started on 22 October 2019 in Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 323 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 23th largest in Southwest since 2016 (of 62 with a page). Number 20 in North Macedonia in 2019, of 77.
The power measured by the satellite is low (18.7 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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Duration by satellite
satellite only9days
22 Oct 2019 to 30 Oct 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
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- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 30 Oct 2019, 00:24 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only22 Oct 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 22 Oct 2019
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Hotspots
satellite only37
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 19 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 22 Oct 2019 – 30 Oct 2019
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The worst day
satellite only92MW
Total radiative power on 22 October 2019; hotspots that day: 12.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 22 Oct 2019
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model19.0FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 17.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 22 Oct 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model18.5°C · 25% RH
High of 18.5 °C and minimum humidity of 25% on 23 October 2019; gusts of 23 km/h on 22 October 2019.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 22 Oct 2019 – 30 Oct 2019
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
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- Area
- 323 ha
- Dates
- 22 Oct 2019 – 30 Oct 2019
- Name
- Makedonski Brod
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/makedonski-brod-2019-10-2?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire makedonski-brod-2019-10-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-22 | 12 | 92 | 18.4 | 3.2 | 29 | 5.6 | 22.7 | 0 | 19 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 2.2 | 25 | 4.9 | 17.3 | 0 | 19.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-10-24 | 1 | 1 | 17.6 | 0.4 | 24 | 5.4 | 22.3 | 0 | 22 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-10-25 | 4 | 13 | 17.1 | 1.3 | 25 | 4.6 | 16.9 | 0 | 20.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-10-26 | 8 | 18 | 17.4 | 0.6 | 23 | 4.7 | 17.3 | 0 | 21 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-10-27 | 2 | 4 | 17.5 | -0.8 | 18 | 4.5 | 15.5 | 0 | 22.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-10-28 | 5 | 47 | 17.1 | 0 | 17 | 4.8 | 18.7 | 0 | 23.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-10-29 | 3 | 8 | 15.6 | -1.2 | 23 | 5.8 | 22 | 0 | 25.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-10-30 | 2 | 2 | 12.2 | -1.4 | 43 | 5.4 | 16.9 | 0 | 19.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 82 | 6.3 | 19.8 | 0 | 11.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 1.2 | 77 | 5.9 | 19.4 | 0 | 8.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 66 | 10.5 | 38.9 | 0.1 | 10.7 | bajo | 0 |
| 2019-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 10.9 | 4.2 | 66 | 13.3 | 53.3 | 0.8 | 12.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2019-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 9.6 | 4.4 | 80 | 10 | 70.9 | 7.6 | 0.2 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 323ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 9days
- 22 Oct 2019 – 30 Oct 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 22 Oct
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 37
- in a single hotspot: 19 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 23MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
22 Oct30 Oct
30 Oct 2019
How it evolved, day by day
22 Oct
25 Oct
27 Oct
29 Oct
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
18°high
23km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity
It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.6 mm on 4 Nov.
This area had burned before
22% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 27 ha in 2016, 42 ha in 2017.
What happened to each town
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Makedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод 5,889 inhabitants · 19.0 km from the centre where it started159 ha reached on 22 Oct0.2 %
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149 ha reached on 22 Oct1.2 %
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16 ha0.0 %
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
- Other natural land88 %
- Broadleaved forest10 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland1.5 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct | 18.4 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 23 Oct | 18.5 °C | 25 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 24 Oct | 17.6 °C | 24 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 25 Oct | 17.1 °C | 25 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 26 Oct | 17.4 °C | 23 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 27 Oct | 17.5 °C | 18 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 28 Oct | 17.1 °C | 17 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 29 Oct | 15.6 °C | 23 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 30 Oct | 12.2 °C | 43 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 31 Oct after | 4.2 °C | 82 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 1 Nov after | 4.9 °C | 77 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 2 Nov after | 8.7 °C | 66 % | 39 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 11 |
| 3 Nov after | 10.9 °C | 66 % | 53 km/h | 0.8 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 4 Nov after | 9.6 °C | 80 % | 71 km/h | 7.6 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 19.0, a minimum humidity of 29% and 17 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 29.
FWI at the start
19.0
Minimum humidity
29 %
Days without rain
17
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Makedonski Brod fire, 22 October 2019
323 ha
9 days
FWI 19.0
Min. humidity 29 %
Prilep fire, September 2023
1,259 ha
1 day
FWI 18.7
Min. humidity 29 %
59 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 6 Oct.
Makedonski Brod fire, July 2024
2,807 ha
12 days
FWI 18.2
Min. humidity 30 %
16 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.0 mm on 18 Aug.
Veles fire, October 2023
712 ha
2 days
FWI 24.7
Min. humidity 29 %
66 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.1 mm on 17 Oct.
Vranje City fire, March 2019
147 ha
3 days
FWI 15.4
Min. humidity 30 %
128 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 3 Apr.
Dibër fire, August 2021
655 ha
11 days
FWI 19.0
Min. humidity 28 %
70 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.4 mm on 25 Aug.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 192 ha
- median area
- 10 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 5.1 mm
- rain at the end (median; 28 of 29 had it)
It was 1.7 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 9 days, against 3 days.
Only 9 of its 29 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 29, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 5.1 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
7.6 mmfirst rain
4 Nov5 days after it ended
23km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 30 Oct, and on 4 Nov 7.6 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 28 of 29, with a median of 5.1 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 15 Oct 2019
After · 6 Nov 2019
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 31 October 2019 the air beside the fire reached 44 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 28: 1.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak44 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM1053 µg/m³
WHO 15
24 Oct26 Oct28 Oct30 Oct
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Moderate
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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 · 37Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 2,807 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод28 July 2024 · 12 days · 16 km away
- 5,197 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродJuly 2017 · 19 days · 17 km away
- 2,056 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод1 September 2026 · 25 days · 22 km away
- 3,768 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод2 July 2025 · 9 days · 24 km away
- 1,749 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродSeptember 2019 · 5 days · 27 km away
- 3,551 haDrugovo Општина КичевоAugust 2024 · 6 days · 32 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Makedonski Brod fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 22 October 2019 to 30 October 2019 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 October 2019 to 28 October 2019.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 323 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Makedonski Brod (159 ha, 0.2 %); Oslomej (149 ha, 1.2 %); Gostivar (16 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 12.1 km of the centre of Oslomej, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 18.5 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, class 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 29. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 192 ha; 10 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 9 of its 29 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 29, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 5.1 mm.
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 26 October 2019 to 28 October 2019. 37 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 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.