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Mostar fire, 25 July 2024 Mostar

Out · last measured on 26 Jul 2024

The fire started on 25 July 2024 in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 350 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 181th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 31 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024, of 87.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
350ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
25 Jul 2024 – 26 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
25 Jul
2024
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
44km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.4 mm on 3 Aug.

This area had burned before

76% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 266 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Mostar where it started
    349 ha
    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

  • Other natural land73 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland27 %

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)
25 Jul 31.0 °C 29 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
26 Jul 31.9 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
27 Jul after 35.6 °C 24 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
28 Jul after 37.1 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Jul after 35.1 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.4 mm High 34
30 Jul after 32.4 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
31 Jul after 35.7 °C 16 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
1 Aug after 36.8 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
2 Aug after 35.1 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
3 Aug after 33.4 °C 37 % 30 km/h 2.4 mm Moderate 13

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jul 2024
After · 2 Aug 2024

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 24 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1013 µg/m³
Optical depth0.40
23242526272829
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mostar fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 25 July 2024 and 26 July 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 350 hectares (3.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mostar (349 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.9 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 44 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 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

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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 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.