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Naro fire, July 2024 Naro, Agrigento

Out · last measured on 12 Jul 2024

The fire started on 12 July 2024 in Naro, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 187 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 137th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 45 in Italy in 2024, of 112.

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
187ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
12 Jul 2024 – 12 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
12 Jul
2024
Danger at start
38
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

33°high
36km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 36 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

95% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 135 ha in 2017, 21 ha in 2018, 46 ha in 2019, 99 ha in 2020, 155 ha in 2021, 73 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 177 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Naro 7,007 inhabitants · 6.7 km from the town where it started
    115 ha
    0.6 %
  2. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 17.3 km from the town
    72 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 land66 %
  • Agricultural areas26 %
  • Artificial surfaces7.5 %

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)
12 Jul 33.1 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
13 Jul after 34.0 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Jul after 34.1 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jul after 35.3 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 Jul after 35.2 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
17 Jul after 35.6 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Jul after 36.4 °C 24 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
19 Jul after 36.9 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
20 Jul after 34.3 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
21 Jul after 35.3 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
22 Jul after 30.5 °C 51 % 57 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 · 5 Jul 2024
After · 19 Jul 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 15 July 2024 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
PM1048 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
101112131415
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 12 July 2024 and 12 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 187 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Naro (115 ha, 0.6 %); Agrigento (72 ha, 0.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.7 km of Naro. 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 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very 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.