Burned area
satellite only637ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 6 April 2022
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HR · Croatia ·
Općina Barilović fire, March 2022 Općina Barilović, Općina Krnjak
Out · last detection 13 Mar 2022, 11:30 UTC
The fire started on 13 March 2022 in Općina Barilović, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 637 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the largest fire in Karlovac since 2016 (of 19 with a page). Number 6 in Croatia in 2022, of 59.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
13 Mar 2022 to 13 Mar 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 13 Mar 2022, 11:30 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 only13 Mar 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 13 Mar 2022
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Hotspots
satellite only15
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 300 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 13 Mar 2022 – 13 Mar 2022
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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 only577MW
Total radiative power on 13 March 2022; hotspots that day: 15.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Mar 2022
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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
model6.2FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 6.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 13 Mar 2022, 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
model13.8°C · 24% RH
High of 13.8 °C and minimum humidity of 24% on 13 March 2022; gusts of 26 km/h on 13 March 2022.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 13 Mar 2022 – 13 Mar 2022
- 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 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
- 637 ha
- Dates
- 13 Mar 2022 – 13 Mar 2022
- Name
- Općina Barilović
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/opcina-barilovic-2022-03?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 opcina-barilovic-2022-03.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-13 | 15 | 577 | 13.8 | -5.6 | 24 | 9.8 | 26.3 | 0 | 6.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-03-14 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | -2.1 | 36 | 9.7 | 23 | 0 | 6.9 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-15 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | -0.6 | 40 | 14.3 | 30.6 | 0.3 | 8.8 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-16 | 0 | 0 | 16.5 | 8 | 49 | 17.6 | 36.7 | 0.2 | 8.2 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-17 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 5.8 | 42 | 12.4 | 34.2 | 0 | 7.8 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-18 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 2.5 | 36 | 17.2 | 45 | 0 | 10.1 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-19 | 0 | 0 | 11.8 | -0.3 | 29 | 12 | 33.1 | 0 | 8.8 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-20 | 0 | 0 | 11 | -0.9 | 20 | 14.3 | 40.3 | 0 | 11.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-03-21 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | -1.8 | 23 | 10.8 | 29.9 | 0 | 10 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-03-22 | 0 | 0 | 14.7 | -0.2 | 23 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 11.2 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-03-23 | 0 | 0 | 19.4 | 0.5 | 20 | 7.7 | 24.1 | 0 | 11.7 | moderado | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 637ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 13 Mar 2022 – 13 Mar 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 13 Mar
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 15
- in a single hotspot: 300 MW
- Danger at start
- 6
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 577MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
13 Mar13 Mar
How it evolved, day by day
13 Mar 2022 · 577 MW · 15
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
14°high
26km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity
It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
81% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 273 ha in 2017, 150 ha in 2019, 406 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 514 ha that had burned before.
- 273 ha Općina Barilović fire, March 2017 359 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 228 ha Općina Krnjak fire, April 2020 421 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 150 ha Općina Barilović fire, April 2019 157 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).
Zagreb boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
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).
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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Općina Barilović where it started548 ha reached on 13 Mar3.1 %
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90 ha0.8 %
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 areas90 %
- Broadleaved forest7.6 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland2.2 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Mar | 13.8 °C | 24 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 14 Mar after | 15.6 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 15 Mar after | 15.6 °C | 40 % | 31 km/h | 0.3 mm | Low 9 |
| 16 Mar after | 16.5 °C | 49 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 8 |
| 17 Mar after | 13.3 °C | 42 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 18 Mar after | 12.2 °C | 36 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 19 Mar after | 11.8 °C | 29 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 20 Mar after | 11.0 °C | 20 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 21 Mar after | 11.9 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 22 Mar after | 14.7 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 23 Mar after | 19.4 °C | 20 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 6.2, a minimum humidity of 24% and 6 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 16.
FWI at the start
6.2
Minimum humidity
24 %
Days without rain
6
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Općina Barilović fire, March 2022
637 ha
1 day
FWI 6.2
Min. humidity 24 %
Općina Gračac fire, March 2019
317 ha
3 days
FWI 6.6
Min. humidity 25 %
117 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 4 Apr.
Općina Gračac fire, March 2017
1,680 ha
5 days
FWI 5.3
Min. humidity 25 %
113 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.0 mm on 26 Mar.
Općina Lovinac fire, February 2019
195 ha
2 days
FWI 6.0
Min. humidity 25 %
106 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.0 mm on 1 Mar.
Grad Senj fire, March 2019
228 ha
1 day
FWI 4.1
Min. humidity 25 %
65 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.6 mm on 3 Apr.
Općina Vrhovine fire, February 2021
125 ha
1 day
FWI 5.8
Min. humidity 22 %
62 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.3 mm on 5 Mar.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 187 ha
- median area
- 12 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 2.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 16 of 16 had it)
It was 3.4 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 1 day, against 3 days.
Only 3 of its 16 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. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 2.8 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
26km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 13 Mar, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 16 of 16, with a median of 2.8 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 · 6 Mar 2022
After · 20 Mar 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 13 March 2022 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
PM1033 µg/m³
WHO 15
11 Mar13 Mar15 Mar
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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 · 15Every 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 |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 421 haOpćina KrnjakApril 2020 · 4 days · 1 km away
- 359 haOpćina BarilovićMarch 2017 · 3 days · 1 km away
- 636 haGrad Slunj4 March 2021 · 2 days · 10 km away
- 623 haGrad Slunj24 March 2022 · 2 days · 12 km away
- 533 haGrad SlunjFebruary 2020 · 4 days · 20 km away
- 172 haOpćina VojnićMarch 2022 · 3 days · 25 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Općina Barilović fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 13 March 2022 and 13 March 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 637 hectares (6.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Općina Barilović (548 ha, 3.1 %); Općina Krnjak (90 ha, 0.8 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 13.8 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class Low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Croatia (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: 16. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 187 ha; 12 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 3 of its 16 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. All of them had rain in the ten days after the end: the first rainy day brought a median of 2.8 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: 112 · 193 · 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 from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 15 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.
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-ShareAlike 2.0). 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.