Burned area
satellite only13,335ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 26 July 2024
+− cross-check
No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
MK · North Macedonia · –
Negotino fire, 13 July 2024 Општина Неготино · Negotino, Shtip
Out · last detection 24 Jul 2024, 01:45 UTC
The fire started on 13 July 2024 in Negotino, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 13,335 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the largest fire in Vardar since 2016 (of 49 with a page). The largest in North Macedonia in 2024, of 69.
Use this data
Compare with…
Use this data
Fire page data · version 2026-11-05matches the official recordwith caveatssatellite onlymodel
When copying, the sentence is
Tick the figures you want: they make up the lede and the CSV.
Duration by satellite
satellite only12days
13 Jul 2024 to 24 Jul 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 24 Jul 2024, 01:45 UTC
+− cross-check
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 only13 Jul 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 13 Jul 2024
+− cross-check
No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only325
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 138 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 13 Jul 2024 – 24 Jul 2024
+− cross-check
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 only1,219MW
Total radiative power on 15 July 2024; hotspots that day: 43.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 15 Jul 2024
+− cross-check
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
model49.8FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 9.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 13 Jul 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
+− cross-check
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
model41.7°C · 13% RH
High of 41.7 °C and minimum humidity of 13% on 15 July 2024; gusts of 42 km/h on 18 July 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 13 Jul 2024 – 24 Jul 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
+− cross-check
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.
Living inside
model≈ 80people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 1.6 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
+− cross-check
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.
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.
Show
-
logStart date: 14 July 2024 → 13 July 2024.
-
· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
-
· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
-
· reconstructed pressCross-check with press and agencies publishedGDACS (ONU/CE) · Universidad Goce Delcev, Stip · Euronews · Telma
-
· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 5 November 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
- 13,335 ha
- Dates
- 13 Jul 2024 – 24 Jul 2024
- Name
- Negotino
- Official record
- —
Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/negotino-2024-07-2?v=2026-11-05A 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 negotino-2024-07-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-13 | 26 | 1,109 | 41.2 | 21.9 | 12 | 9.6 | 27 | 0 | 49.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-14 | 27 | 415 | 40.6 | 22.2 | 19 | 9.2 | 25.9 | 0 | 44.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | 43 | 1,219 | 41.7 | 25.3 | 13 | 12.1 | 31.7 | 0 | 54.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-16 | 19 | 435 | 41.2 | 24 | 14 | 10.3 | 27.7 | 0 | 49.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-17 | 39 | 348 | 41.4 | 22.2 | 15 | 7.3 | 25.6 | 0 | 51.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-18 | 11 | 344 | 41.7 | 26.4 | 19 | 16.3 | 41.8 | 0.2 | 54.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-19 | 24 | 108 | 39.8 | 25.6 | 24 | 11.4 | 28.1 | 0.3 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-20 | 37 | 585 | 39.5 | 22.2 | 24 | 11.3 | 27.4 | 0 | 51.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-21 | 22 | 234 | 40.6 | 23.8 | 20 | 6.8 | 24.5 | 0 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-22 | 47 | 422 | 38.8 | 25.4 | 22 | 11.8 | 33.8 | 0 | 44.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-23 | 27 | 184 | 37.5 | 24.2 | 26 | 14.9 | 37.8 | 0 | 55.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-24 | 3 | 8 | 34.9 | 23.1 | 31 | 15.4 | 31.7 | 1.3 | 41 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 21.3 | 27 | 16.2 | 49.3 | 0.1 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-26 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 18.8 | 22 | 14.4 | 41 | 0 | 48.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 20.1 | 13 | 9.5 | 30.2 | 0 | 45.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 38.9 | 20.5 | 10 | 6.5 | 21.2 | 0 | 40.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 37.9 | 22.6 | 25 | 17.6 | 49 | 0 | 61.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 33.9 | 22.2 | 18 | 16.2 | 45.7 | 0 | 62.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-31 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 20.4 | 16 | 8.2 | 24.1 | 0 | 44 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-01 | 0 | 0 | 37.6 | 20.8 | 12 | 8.3 | 21.6 | 0 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-02 | 0 | 0 | 39.5 | 18.8 | 16 | 10.9 | 25.6 | 0 | 42.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 22.3 | 23 | 11.6 | 38.2 | 0.8 | 54.3 | extremo | 0 |
It is generated in your browser from this page’s data: one file per fire, aggregated by day and without individual hotspots.
Live widget for your story
It updates itself while the fire is still active and links to this page. Free, with the attribution shown at the bottom.
Sources for this page: EFFIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), ERA5 (ECMWF/Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), GHSL (JRC). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
- Burnt area
- 13,335ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 12days
- 13 Jul 2024 – 24 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 13 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 325
- in a single hotspot: 138 MW
- Danger at start
- 50
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 451MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
13 Jul24 Jul
24 Jul 2024
How it evolved, day by day
15 Jul
19 Jul
22 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
42°high
42km/h · peak gust
12%lowest humidity
It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
26% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 133 ha in 2017, 359 ha in 2018, 1,937 ha in 2019, 69 ha in 2020, 714 ha in 2021, 382 ha in 2022, 7 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,409 ha that had burned before.
- 1,417 ha Negotino fire, June 2019 1,543 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 498 ha Negotino fire, July 2021 528 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 359 ha Negotino fire, October 2018 391 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 243 ha Negotino fire, September 2019 274 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 171 ha Negotino fire, July 2022 587 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 129 ha Negotino fire, May 2022 129 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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
-
10,589 ha reached on 13 Jul22 %
-
2,767 ha reached on 13 Jul4.7 %
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
- Other natural land53 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland38 %
- Broadleaved forest8.3 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area1.6 ha
Residents≈ 80
Inside the perimeter there were about 1.6 hectares of built-up land and about 80 residents (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
Checked against the press
Checked on 29 September 2026We checked this page against 4 sources published once the fire was out. This is what they add:
- Also known as
- Пожар на Серта · Serta fire · Пожарот кај Неготино
- According to the sources, several fires that ended up merging:
- Negotino 14 July 2024
- Negotino/Serta 14 July 2024
- Stip 16 July 2024
- Zona Pepelishte / region de Lakavica 10 July 2024
Sources
- Overall Green Forest fire in The Republic of North Macedonia from 10 Jul 2024 to 20 Jul 2024 — GDACS (ONU/CE) · official source
- Analiza na sumskiot pozhar na planinata Serta preku satelitski podatoci — Universidad Goce Delcev, Stip, 15 August 2024
- Battle against flames ongoing in North Macedonia with international support — Euronews, 20 July 2024
- Detalen izvestaj na CUK - reciso i da nema opstina kade nema pozhari — Telma, 18 July 2024
Official figures are measured differently from satellite ones and sometimes cover only part of the fire.
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 Very dry air: 19 % of the area in North Macedonia
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul | 41.2 °C | 12 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 14 Jul | 40.6 °C | 19 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 15 Jul | 41.7 °C | 13 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 16 Jul | 41.2 °C | 14 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 17 Jul | 41.4 °C | 15 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 18 Jul | 41.7 °C | 19 % | 42 km/h | 0.2 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 19 Jul | 39.8 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 46 |
| 20 Jul | 39.5 °C | 24 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 21 Jul | 40.6 °C | 20 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 22 Jul | 38.8 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 23 Jul | 37.5 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 24 Jul | 34.9 °C | 31 % | 32 km/h | 1.3 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 27 % | 49 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 39 |
| 26 Jul after | 33.6 °C | 22 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 27 Jul after | 35.7 °C | 13 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 28 Jul after | 38.9 °C | 10 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 29 Jul after | 37.9 °C | 25 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 30 Jul after | 33.9 °C | 18 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 31 Jul after | 35.3 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 1 Aug after | 37.6 °C | 12 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 2 Aug after | 39.5 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 3 Aug after | 36.3 °C | 23 % | 38 km/h | 0.8 mm | Extreme 54 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 49.8, a minimum humidity of 12% and 9 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 19.
FWI at the start
49.8
Minimum humidity
12 %
Days without rain
9
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Negotino fire, 13 July 2024
13,335 ha
12 days
FWI 49.8
Min. humidity 12 %
Prilep fire, August 2017
106 ha
6 days
FWI 50.1
Min. humidity 12 %
33 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.2 mm on 13 Aug.
Gjorche Petrov fire, August 2017
113 ha
6 days
FWI 49.9
Min. humidity 11 %
83 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 12 Aug.
Makedonski Brod fire, August 2017
369 ha
3 days
FWI 52.6
Min. humidity 11 %
71 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.5 mm on 8 Aug.
Prilep fire, August 2017
417 ha
3 days
FWI 48.3
Min. humidity 9 %
34 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.4 mm on 29 Aug.
Leskovac City fire, August 2025
112 ha
4 days
FWI 49.9
Min. humidity 15 %
162 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 22 Aug.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 360 ha
- median area
- 11 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 2.2 mm
- rain at the end (median; 17 of 19 had it)
It was 37.0 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 12 days, against 3 days.
None of its 19 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 2 of 19, 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 2.2 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
42km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 24 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 17 of 19, with a median of 2.2 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
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
↔
Before · 6 Jul 2024
After · 31 Jul 2024
Sentinel-2 did not pass over on that day. Try another date, or use false colour, which is daily.
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 · CopernicusOn 14 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1041 µg/m³
Optical depth0.54
WHO 15
12 Jul14 Jul16 Jul18 Jul20 Jul
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 · 325Every 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 time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,543 haNegotino Општина НеготиноJune 2019 · 8 days · 3 km away
- 5,879 haNegotino Општина Неготино10 July 2024 · 9 days · 13 km away
- 3,539 haGradsko Општина Градско17 July 2024 · 4 days · 24 km away
- 2,674 haKarbintsi Општина КарбинциJuly 2024 · 3 days · 28 km away
- 1,789 haCheshinovo - Obleshevo Општина Чешиново-ОблешевоAugust 2016 · 3 days · 35 km away
- 12,051 haSveti Nikole Општина Свети Николе28 July 2024 · 5 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Negotino fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 July 2024 to 24 July 2024 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 July 2024 to 18 July 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 13,335 hectares (133.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Negotino (10,589 ha, 22 %); Shtip (2,767 ha, 4.7 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Negotino and came within 5.9 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 41.7 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 42 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.
- 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: 19. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 360 ha; 11 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 19 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 2 of 19, 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 2.2 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 14 July 2024 → 13 July 2024.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
Report an error
How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 July 2024 to 18 July 2024. 325 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Checked against news and agencies: 4 confirmed sources.
- 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 (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.