Burned area
satellite only2,807ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 27 August 2024
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MK · North Macedonia · –
Makedonski Brod fire, 28 July 2024 Општина Македонски Брод · Makedonski Brod
Out · last detection 9 Aug 2024, 11:29 UTC
The fire started on 28 July 2024 in Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,807 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 4th largest in Southwest since 2016 (of 62 with a page). Number 9 in North Macedonia in 2024, of 69.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only12days
28 Jul 2024 to 8 Aug 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 9 Aug 2024, 11:29 UTC
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Start
satellite only28 Jul 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 28 Jul 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only317
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 51 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 28 Jul 2024 – 8 Aug 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only717MW
Total radiative power on 2 August 2024; hotspots that day: 59.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 2 Aug 2024
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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
model18.2FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 3.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 28 Jul 2024, 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
model31.7°C · 28% RH
High of 31.7 °C and minimum humidity of 28% on 2 August 2024; gusts of 49 km/h on 29 July 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 28 Jul 2024 – 8 Aug 2024
- 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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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,807 ha
- Dates
- 28 Jul 2024 – 8 Aug 2024
- Name
- Makedonski Brod
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/makedonski-brod-2024-07-2?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.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire makedonski-brod-2024-07-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-28 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 15.4 | 30 | 6.9 | 25.2 | 0 | 18.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-07-29 | 26 | 169 | 28.8 | 17.9 | 40 | 12.4 | 49.3 | 0 | 25.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-30 | 39 | 175 | 25.6 | 15 | 31 | 12.7 | 45.4 | 0 | 26.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 42 | 370 | 27.5 | 13.2 | 29 | 7 | 26.3 | 0 | 21.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-08-01 | 41 | 348 | 30.1 | 14.5 | 27 | 5.3 | 15.8 | 0 | 22.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-02 | 59 | 717 | 31.7 | 13.5 | 28 | 7.3 | 28.8 | 0.3 | 23.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-03 | 32 | 103 | 29.5 | 14.7 | 33 | 8.7 | 48.2 | 0.6 | 25 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-04 | 6 | 43 | 25.4 | 16 | 42 | 9 | 30.2 | 2.2 | 4.7 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2024-08-05 | 12 | 65 | 26.3 | 15.4 | 35 | 10.1 | 37.1 | 0 | 15.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-08-06 | 20 | 55 | 27.2 | 15.4 | 40 | 10 | 35.6 | 0 | 21.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-08-07 | 22 | 64 | 28.2 | 15.4 | 36 | 7 | 27 | 0 | 19.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-08-08 | 15 | 34 | 30.2 | 15.5 | 34 | 6.1 | 23.8 | 0 | 20.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-08-09 | 2 | 4 | 28.2 | 15.6 | 41 | 10.4 | 33.8 | 0 | 25.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 27.7 | 17.6 | 34 | 11.2 | 41.4 | 0 | 28.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 30.2 | 17.2 | 30 | 10.1 | 34.6 | 0 | 28.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 18 | 28 | 6.1 | 25.2 | 0 | 28.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 15.7 | 27 | 6.7 | 20.2 | 0 | 28.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 33.5 | 17.6 | 27 | 10.2 | 30.2 | 0.1 | 31.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 17.2 | 30 | 5.4 | 24.1 | 0.9 | 28.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 18.1 | 27 | 10.1 | 36.7 | 0 | 23.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 18.9 | 30 | 8.7 | 25.2 | 0.3 | 28.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 28.4 | 15.2 | 48 | 4.8 | 31 | 8 | 26 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 2,807ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 12days
- 28 Jul 2024 – 8 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 28 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 317
- in a single hotspot: 51 MW
- Danger at start
- 18
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 165MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
28 Jul8 Aug
9 Aug 2024
How it evolved, day by day
28 Jul
2 Aug
6 Aug
9 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
32°high
49km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.0 mm on 18 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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Makedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод 5,889 inhabitants · 15.7 km from the centre where it started2,813 ha reached on 28 Jul3.2 %
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
- Coniferous forest52 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland31 %
- Mixed forest6.1 %
- Agricultural areas6.1 %
- Broadleaved forest3.7 %
- Other natural land1.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul | 31.0 °C | 30 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 29 Jul | 28.8 °C | 40 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 30 Jul | 25.6 °C | 31 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 31 Jul | 27.5 °C | 29 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 1 Aug | 30.1 °C | 27 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Aug | 31.7 °C | 28 % | 29 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Aug | 29.5 °C | 33 % | 48 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 25 |
| 4 Aug | 25.4 °C | 42 % | 30 km/h | 2.2 mm | Very low 5 |
| 5 Aug | 26.3 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 6 Aug | 27.2 °C | 40 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 7 Aug | 28.2 °C | 36 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 8 Aug | 30.2 °C | 34 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 9 Aug after | 28.2 °C | 41 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 10 Aug after | 27.7 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Aug after | 30.2 °C | 30 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 12 Aug after | 31.6 °C | 28 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 13 Aug after | 33.3 °C | 27 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 14 Aug after | 33.5 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 32 |
| 15 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 30 % | 24 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 29 |
| 16 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 17 Aug after | 32.1 °C | 30 % | 25 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 29 |
| 18 Aug after | 28.4 °C | 48 % | 31 km/h | 8.0 mm | High 26 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 18.2, a minimum humidity of 30% and 3 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 21.
FWI at the start
18.2
Minimum humidity
30 %
Days without rain
3
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Makedonski Brod fire, 28 July 2024
2,807 ha
12 days
FWI 18.2
Min. humidity 30 %
Prilep fire, September 2023
1,259 ha
1 day
FWI 18.7
Min. humidity 29 %
58 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 6 Oct.
Pogradec fire, August 2021
152 ha
5 days
FWI 17.9
Min. humidity 32 %
98 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.0 mm on 5 Sept.
Bulqizë fire, July 2020
124 ha
2 days
FWI 18.2
Min. humidity 33 %
77 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.8 mm on 1 Aug.
Almopia fire, September 2017
103 ha
1 day
FWI 19.8
Min. humidity 29 %
124 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 12.3 mm on 9 Sept.
Dibër fire, August 2021
655 ha
11 days
FWI 19.0
Min. humidity 28 %
85 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.4 mm on 25 Aug.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 209 ha
- median area
- 14 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 5.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 21 of 21 had it)
It was 13.4 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 12 days, against 2 days.
None of its 21 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. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.0 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
8.0 mmfirst rain
18 Aug10 days after it ended
49km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 8 Aug, and on 18 Aug 8.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 21 of 21, with a median of 5.0 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 · 21 Jul 2024
After · 15 Aug 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 48 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak48 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1050 µg/m³
Optical depth0.61
WHO 15
26 Jul28 Jul30 Jul1 Aug3 Aug
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 317Every 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
- 2,056 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод1 September 2026 · 25 days · 7 km away
- 5,197 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродJuly 2017 · 19 days · 15 km away
- 3,768 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод2 July 2025 · 9 days · 19 km away
- 1,749 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродSeptember 2019 · 5 days · 25 km away
- 1,539 haDolneni Општина Долнени12 July 2024 · 12 days · 29 km away
- 1,813 haSaraj Општина СарајJuly 2017 · 10 days · 34 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 28 July 2024 to 8 August 2024 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 July 2024 to 1 August 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,807 hectares (28.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Makedonski Brod (2,813 ha, 3.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Makedonski Brod and came within 15.7 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 31.7 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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: 21. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 209 ha; 14 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 21 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. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 5.0 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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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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 28 July 2024 to 1 August 2024. 317 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.