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Manfredonia fire, June 2022 Manfredonia

Out · last detection 22 Jun 2022, 01:51 UTC

The fire started on 21 June 2022 in Manfredonia, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 130 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 28th largest in Foggia since 2016 (of 38 with a page). Number 122 in Italy in 2022, of 161.

Burnt area
130ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
21 Jun 2022 – 22 Jun 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
21 Jun
2022
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
55MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

22 Jun 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Jun22 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2122

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

The weather it burned in

39°high
32km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 1 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Manfredonia 53,902 inhabitants · 6.6 km from the town where it started
    130 ha reached on 21 Jun
    0.4 %

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 land95 %
  • Agricultural areas5.3 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

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)
21 Jun 37.6 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
22 Jun 38.9 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Jun after 36.7 °C 24 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
24 Jun after 38.0 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Jun after 34.9 °C 33 % 39 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 41
26 Jun after 36.9 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
27 Jun after 39.7 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
28 Jun after 41.2 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 45
29 Jun after 38.1 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jun after 36.6 °C 35 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Jul after 38.2 °C 31 % 31 km/h 1.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Jun 2022
After · 29 Jun 2022

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 22 June 2022 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1041 µg/m³
19202122232425
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 · 8Every 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 Manfredonia fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 21 June 2022 and 22 June 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 130 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manfredonia (130 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.6 km of Manfredonia. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Italy (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: 112 · 1515

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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 ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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.