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NAIDAS fire, October 2018 NAIDAS

Out · last detection 15 Oct 2018, 12:13 UTC

The fire started on 15 October 2018 in NAIDAS, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 131 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 151th largest in Caraș-Severin since 2016 (of 194 with a page). Number 6 in Romania in 2018, of 8.

The power measured by the satellite is low (12.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
131ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Oct 2018 – 15 Oct 2018
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
15 Oct
2018
Heat detections
9
in a single hotspot: 12 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
62MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Oct15 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

15

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

The weather it burned in

22°high
58km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 21 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. NAIDAS where it started
    131 ha reached on 15 Oct
    2.0 %

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

  • Agricultural areas59 %
  • Other natural land40 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.8 %

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)
15 Oct 22.5 °C 26 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
16 Oct after 23.7 °C 22 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
17 Oct after 25.0 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
18 Oct after 23.3 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
19 Oct after 21.2 °C 52 % 24 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 17
20 Oct after 17.5 °C 69 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
21 Oct after 13.7 °C 60 % 31 km/h 1.5 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Oct 2018
After · 22 Oct 2018

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 17 October 2018 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak19 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1024 µg/m³
131415161718
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 · 9Every 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 NAIDAS fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 October 2018 and 15 October 2018: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 131 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered NAIDAS (131 ha, 2.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 22.5 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Romania (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

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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.