Burned area
satellite only1,738ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 18 November 2024
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RS · Serbia · –
Negotin Municipality fire, 2 November 2024 Неготин · Negotin Municipality
Out · last detection 10 Nov 2024, 10:44 UTC
The fire started on 2 November 2024 in Negotin Municipality, Serbia, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,738 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 2th largest in Borski upravni okrug since 2016 (of 61 with a page). Number 3 in Serbia in 2024, of 82.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only9days
2 Nov 2024 to 10 Nov 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 10 Nov 2024, 10:44 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only2 Nov 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 2 Nov 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only78
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 32 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 2 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only150MW
Total radiative power on 5 November 2024; hotspots that day: 17.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 5 Nov 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model25.1FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 21.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 2 Nov 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model20.6°C · 41% RH
High of 20.6 °C and minimum humidity of 41% on 2 November 2024; gusts of 53 km/h on 2 November 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 2 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 1,738 ha
- Dates
- 2 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Name
- Negotin Municipality
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/negotin-municipality-2024-11-2?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire negotin-municipality-2024-11-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-02 | 2 | 6 | 20.6 | 4.9 | 41 | 25.7 | 52.6 | 0 | 25.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 4.2 | 36 | 12.9 | 26.3 | 0.4 | 13.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-04 | 1 | 5 | 15 | -1.9 | 27 | 22.5 | 47.9 | 0 | 26 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-11-05 | 17 | 150 | 11.9 | 0.8 | 35 | 13.7 | 32 | 0 | 17.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-06 | 7 | 40 | 13.1 | -0.5 | 28 | 7.6 | 17.6 | 0 | 13.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-07 | 33 | 102 | 15 | -0.2 | 18 | 8.9 | 21.6 | 0 | 14.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-08 | 10 | 39 | 15.7 | 0.8 | 17 | 8.6 | 15.5 | 0 | 15.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-09 | 7 | 40 | 8.3 | -1.8 | 62 | 9.4 | 20.2 | 0 | 11.4 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-11-10 | 1 | 3 | 9.2 | 2.4 | 50 | 7.9 | 18.7 | 0.2 | 10.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-11-11 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 84 | 6.8 | 15.8 | 6.3 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 1,738ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 9days
- 2 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 2 Nov
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 78
- in a single hotspot: 32 MW
- Danger at start
- 25
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 48MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
2 Nov10 Nov
10 Nov 2024
How it evolved, day by day
2 Nov
5 Nov
7 Nov
9 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
21°high
53km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity
It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.3 mm on 11 Nov.
This area had burned before
31% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 90 ha in 2019, 446 ha in 2022.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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1,743 ha reached on 2 Nov1.6 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Agricultural areas59 %
- Broadleaved forest35 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland5.9 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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)
Started with Strong wind: 8.9 % of the area in Serbia
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov | 20.6 °C | 41 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 3 Nov | 10.8 °C | 36 % | 26 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 4 Nov | 15.0 °C | 27 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 5 Nov | 11.9 °C | 35 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 6 Nov | 13.1 °C | 28 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 7 Nov | 15.0 °C | 18 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 8 Nov | 15.7 °C | 17 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 9 Nov | 8.3 °C | 62 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 10 Nov | 9.2 °C | 50 % | 19 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 11 |
| 11 Nov after | 5.2 °C | 84 % | 16 km/h | 6.3 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 25.1, a minimum humidity of 41% and 21 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 25.
FWI at the start
25.1
Minimum humidity
41 %
Days without rain
21
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Negotin Municipality fire, 2 November 2024
1,738 ha
9 days
FWI 25.1
Min. humidity 41 %
Kladovo Municipality fire, September 2020
101 ha
1 day
FWI 30.0
Min. humidity 40 %
14 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.2 mm on 25 Sept.
Eșelnița fire, September 2026
115 ha
10 days
FWI 21.0
Min. humidity 41 %
42 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 11.8 mm on 11 Oct.
Băile Herculane fire, September 2026
426 ha
41 days
FWI 21.3
Min. humidity 39 %
56 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.9 mm on 22 Oct.
Băile Herculane fire, September 2026
477 ha
31 days
FWI 21.2
Min. humidity 39 %
59 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 14.3 mm on 11 Oct.
Chuprene fire, September 2019
136 ha
1 day
FWI 28.0
Min. humidity 36 %
93 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 9 Sept.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 165 ha
- median area
- 0 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 3.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 24 of 25 had it)
It was 10.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 9 days, against 2 days.
None of its 25 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 25, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.0 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
6.3 mmfirst rain
11 Novthe day after it ended
53km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 10 Nov, and on 11 Nov 6.3 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 24 of 25, with a median of 3.0 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 26 Oct 2024
After · 17 Nov 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 7 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 46 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak46 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM1054 µg/m³
Optical depth0.45
WHO 15
31 Oct3 Nov6 Nov9 Nov12 Nov
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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 · 78Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 689 haKladovo Municipality Кладово24 March 2022 · 5 days · 7 km away
- 2,036 haKladovo Municipality КладовоSeptember 2024 · 3 days · 16 km away
- 1,250 haJiana4 August 2021 · 6 days · 16 km away
- 1,072 haKladovo Municipality Кладово18 August 2026 · 2 days · 19 km away
- 662 haKladovo Municipality Кладово23 August 2024 · 2 days · 20 km away
- 1,300 haDeveselAugust 2021 · 5 days · 23 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Negotin Municipality fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 November 2024 to 10 November 2024 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 5 November 2024 to 8 November 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,738 hectares (17.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Negotin Municipality (1,743 ha, 1.6 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Negotin Municipality and came within 15.0 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 20.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 53 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 Serbia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 25. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 165 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 25 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 25, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.0 mm.
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: 193 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 5 November 2024 to 8 November 2024. 78 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.