Općina Gračac fire, April 2019 Općina Gračac
The fire started on 2 April 2019 in Općina Gračac, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 237 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 26th largest in Zadar County since 2016 (of 55 with a page). Number 12 in Croatia in 2019, of 32.
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- Burnt area
- 237ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 2 Apr 2019 – 2 Apr 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 2 Apr
- 2019
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 13MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
2 Apr 2019 · 13 MW · 4
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
44% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 104 ha in 2016.
What happened to each town
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Općina Gračac where it started237 ha0.2 %
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
- Other natural land81 %
- Broadleaved forest19 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 82 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.
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
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
Detections table · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 3,528 haBihać20 March 2022 · 10 days · 15 km away
- 3,936 haOpćina Gračac22 March 2022 · 8 days · 18 km away
- 4,959 haOpćina Gračac5 April 2020 · 9 days · 21 km away
- 4,086 haOpćina Gračac5 August 2017 · 7 days · 21 km away
- 3,515 haBosansko Grahovo22 March 2022 · 8 days · 23 km away
- 4,225 haOpćina Gračac21 March 2022 · 7 days · 24 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Općina Gračac fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 April 2019 and 2 April 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 237 hectares (2.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Općina Gračac (237 ha, 0.2 %).
- 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.
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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 31 March 2019 → 2 April 2019.
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.
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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 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-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.