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Naro fire, July 2018 Naro, Camastra, Palma di Montechiaro

Out · last measured on 20 Jul 2018

The fire started on 20 July 2018 in Naro, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 195 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 130th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 17 in Italy in 2018, of 29.

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
195ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
20 Jul 2018 – 20 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
20 Jul
2018
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

33°high
39km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

74% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 144 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Naro 7,007 inhabitants · 5.9 km from the town where it started
    100 ha
    0.5 %
  2. Camastra 2,010 inhabitants · 2.0 km from the town
    57 ha
    3.5 %
  3. Palma di Montechiaro 21,373 inhabitants · 3.0 km from the town
    38 ha
    0.5 %

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 land72 %
  • Agricultural areas28 %

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 Jul 32.8 °C 27 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jul after 31.3 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Jul after 32.8 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
23 Jul after 33.0 °C 28 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Jul after 31.9 °C 36 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Jul after 31.7 °C 36 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
26 Jul after 32.5 °C 30 % 43 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 40
27 Jul after 31.6 °C 37 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
28 Jul after 32.2 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
29 Jul after 35.1 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
30 Jul after 33.7 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Jul 2018
After · 27 Jul 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 23 July 2018 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1049 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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Naro fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 20 July 2018 and 20 July 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 195 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Naro (100 ha, 0.5 %); Camastra (57 ha, 3.5 %); Palma di Montechiaro (38 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.0 km of Camastra. 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 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 39 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.