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Mogila fire, March 2017 Општина Могила · Prilep, Mogila

Out · last measured on 20 Mar 2017

The fire started on 20 March 2017 in Mogila, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 359 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 33th largest in Pelagonia since 2016 (of 76 with a page). Number 19 in North Macedonia in 2017, of 44.

Burnt area
359ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
20 Mar 2017 – 20 Mar 2017
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
20 Mar
2017
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Mar20 Mar

The weather it burned in

23°high
19km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.7 mm on 26 Mar.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Prilep Општина Прилеп 69,025 inhabitants · 13.6 km from the town
    284 ha
    0.2 %
  2. Mogila Општина Могила 5,283 inhabitants · 18.5 km from the town where it started
    74 ha reached on 18 Mar
    0.3 %

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

  • Agricultural areas70 %
  • Mixed forest14 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland8.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.4 %
  • Other natural land2.5 %

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)
20 Mar 22.6 °C 19 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
21 Mar after 22.2 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
22 Mar after 22.3 °C 23 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
23 Mar after 22.5 °C 27 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
24 Mar after 22.9 °C 26 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
25 Mar after 22.4 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Low 11
26 Mar after 18.4 °C 36 % 53 km/h 2.7 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Mar 2017
After · 27 Mar 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 20 March 2017 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM1027 µg/m³
181920212223
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 · 1Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mogila fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 20 March 2017 and 20 March 2017: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 359 hectares (3.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Prilep (284 ha, 0.2 %); Mogila (74 ha, 0.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 13.6 km of Prilep. 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 22.6 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 19 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class Low.
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.

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

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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 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.