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مساكن fire, June 2025 مساكن, زرمدين

Out · last measured on 7 Jun 2025

The fire started on 7 June 2025 in مساكن, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 177 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 7 in Tunisia in 2025, of 12.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
177ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
7 Jun 2025 – 7 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
2
delegations
Started on
7 Jun
2025
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

37°high
37km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. مساكن where it started
    171 ha
    0.5 %
  2. زرمدين
    6 ha
    0.0 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest68 %
  • Coniferous forest17 %
  • Agricultural areas10 %
  • Other land cover4.6 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

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)
7 Jun 36.9 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
8 Jun after 38.7 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
9 Jun after 37.0 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Jun after 35.5 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Jun after 33.3 °C 30 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Jun after 33.2 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Jun after 34.5 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Jun after 35.9 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jun after 36.3 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 Jun after 38.8 °C 17 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Jun after 39.4 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 May 2025
After · 14 Jun 2025

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 5 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 50 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak50 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM10144 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
5678910
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)

Frequently asked questions

How long did the مساكن fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 June 2025 and 7 June 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 177 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: مساكن (171 ha, 0.5 %); زرمدين (6 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.9 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (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: 198

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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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.