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Negotino fire, June 2019 Општина Неготино · Negotino

Out · last detection 4 Jul 2019, 12:00 UTC

The fire started on 27 June 2019 in Negotino, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,543 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Vardar since 2016 (of 49 with a page). Number 3 in North Macedonia in 2019, of 77.

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Burnt area
1,543ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
8days
27 Jun 2019 – 4 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
27 Jun
2019
Heat detections
84
in a single hotspot: 106 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Average daily power
159MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Jun4 Jul
4 Jul 2019

How it evolved, day by day

27 Jun 2019 · 15 MW · 2 1 Jul 2019 · 245 MW · 12 2 Jul 2019 · 272 MW · 27 3 Jul 2019 · 218 MW · 30 4 Jul 2019 · 45 MW · 13
27 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

39°high
58km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.6 mm on 10 Jul.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2018.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1% of the area of London (15 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Negotino Општина Неготино 18,194 inhabitants · 9.4 km from the centre where it started
    1,547 ha reached on 27 Jun
    3.2 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland52 %
  • Other natural land39 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.9 %

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)
27 Jun 34.8 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
28 Jun 33.9 °C 23 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
29 Jun 31.0 °C 23 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jun 33.0 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Jul 35.4 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jul 38.4 °C 15 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
3 Jul 39.0 °C 11 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Jul 36.6 °C 22 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm High 38
5 Jul after 34.8 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Jul after 34.6 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
7 Jul after 36.6 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
8 Jul after 33.2 °C 30 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
9 Jul after 34.8 °C 24 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
10 Jul after 30.3 °C 38 % 43 km/h 3.6 mm Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Jun 2019
After · 11 Jul 2019

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 4 July 2019 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1033 µg/m³
2526272829301234567
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 · 84Every 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 Negotino fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 27 June 2019 and 4 July 2019: 8 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,543 hectares (15.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Negotino (1,547 ha, 3.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Negotino and came within 9.4 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 39.0 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (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: 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.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 84 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.