Burned area
satellite only1,712ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 25 August 2024
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HR · Croatia · –
Općina Kijevo fire, August 2024 Općina Kijevo, Grad Knin
Out · last detection 18 Aug 2024, 12:01 UTC
The fire started on 16 August 2024 in Općina Kijevo, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,712 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 8th largest in Šibenik-Knin since 2016 (of 56 with a page). Number 4 in Croatia in 2024, of 14.
The power measured by the satellite is low (25.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only3days
16 Aug 2024 to 18 Aug 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 18 Aug 2024, 12:01 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 only16 Aug 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 16 Aug 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 only56
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 26 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 16 Aug 2024 – 18 Aug 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 only322MW
Total radiative power on 17 August 2024; hotspots that day: 38.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 17 Aug 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
model26.0FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 8.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 16 Aug 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
model30.6°C · 32% RH
High of 30.6 °C and minimum humidity of 32% on 16 August 2024; gusts of 34 km/h on 16 August 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 16 Aug 2024 – 18 Aug 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 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
- 1,712 ha
- Dates
- 16 Aug 2024 – 18 Aug 2024
- Name
- Općina Kijevo
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/opcina-kijevo-2024-08?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-kijevo-2024-08.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | 6 | 52 | 30.6 | 15.5 | 32 | 9.4 | 33.5 | 0.4 | 26 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-17 | 38 | 322 | 29.4 | 17.9 | 34 | 8.5 | 32.4 | 2 | 27.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-08-18 | 12 | 21 | 25.7 | 15.1 | 45 | 8.2 | 33.1 | 9.3 | 7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-08-19 | 0 | 0 | 18.9 | 14.5 | 79 | 5.9 | 38.9 | 19.3 | 0 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 1,712ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 16 Aug 2024 – 18 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 16 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 56
- in a single hotspot: 26 MW
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 132MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
16 Aug18 Aug
18 Aug 2024
How it evolved, day by day
16 Aug
17 Aug
18 Aug
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
31°high
34km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 19.3 mm on 19 Aug.
This area had burned before
5% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 94 ha in 2020.
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 Kijevo where it started1,693 ha reached on 16 Aug23 %
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3 ha0.0 %
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 land86 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub7.8 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland6.3 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA + LIC Dinara HR1000028 · HR5000028
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Aug | 30.6 °C | 32 % | 34 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 26 |
| 17 Aug | 29.4 °C | 34 % | 32 km/h | 2.0 mm | High 27 |
| 18 Aug | 25.7 °C | 45 % | 33 km/h | 9.3 mm | Low 7 |
| 19 Aug after | 18.9 °C | 79 % | 39 km/h | 19.3 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 26.0, a minimum humidity of 32% and 8 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 25.
FWI at the start
26.0
Minimum humidity
32 %
Days without rain
8
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Općina Kijevo fire, August 2024
1,712 ha
3 days
FWI 26.0
Min. humidity 32 %
Općina Promina fire, August 2017
2,092 ha
8 days
FWI 24.7
Min. humidity 32 %
24 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 26.9 mm on 2 Sept.
Grad Vodice fire, July 2016
100 ha
1 day
FWI 26.6
Min. humidity 31 %
53 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 24 Jul.
Drvar fire, July 2021
283 ha
5 days
FWI 26.3
Min. humidity 30 %
25 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.3 mm on 5 Aug.
Stolac fire, August 2016
365 ha
2 days
FWI 24.2
Min. humidity 32 %
153 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.1 mm on 5 Sept.
Kupres (BiH) fire, September 2026
13,227 ha
6 days
FWI 25.6
Min. humidity 33 %
84 km away, in 2026
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 18.2 mm on 11 Sept.
What happened to them
- 4 days
- median duration
- 479 ha
- median area
- 32 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 12.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 22 of 25 had it)
It was 3.6 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 3 days, against 4 days.
Only 5 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 3 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 12.8 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
19.3 mmfirst rain
19 Augthe day after it ended
34km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Aug, and on 19 Aug 19.3 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 22 of 25, with a median of 12.8 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
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 9 Aug 2024
After · 25 Aug 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 19 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1031 µg/m³
Optical depth0.48
WHO 15
14 Aug16 Aug18 Aug20 Aug
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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 · 56Every 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
- 8,657 haBosansko GrahovoAugust 2026 · 12 days · 5 km away
- 8,212 haBosansko Grahovo6 April 2020 · 8 days · 8 km away
- 5,948 haDinara Općina CivljaneApril 2020 · 7 days · 10 km away
- 3,636 haGrad VrlikaApril 2020 · 6 days · 23 km away
- 4,225 haOpćina Gračac21 March 2022 · 7 days · 27 km away
- 4,086 haOpćina Gračac5 August 2017 · 7 days · 30 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Općina Kijevo fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 16 August 2024 and 18 August 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,712 hectares (17.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Općina Kijevo (1,693 ha, 23 %); Grad Knin (3 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 30.6 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class High.
- 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: 25. Their median duration was 4 days and their median area 479 ha; 32 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 5 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 3 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 12.8 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
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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.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 56 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.