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Općina Muć fire, March 2022 Općina Muć, Općina Ružić

Out · last detection 23 Mar 2022, 01:57 UTC

The fire started on 13 March 2022 in Općina Muć, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,304 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 10th largest in Split-Dalmatia since 2016 (of 48 with a page). Number 4 in Croatia in 2022, of 59.

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Burnt area
2,304ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
11days
13 Mar 2022 – 23 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
13 Mar
2022
Heat detections
106
in a single hotspot: 40 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
62MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Mar23 Mar
23 Mar 2022

How it evolved, day by day

13 Mar 2022 · 2 MW · 1 18 Mar 2022 · 8 MW · 5 19 Mar 2022 · 82 MW · 8 20 Mar 2022 · 91 MW · 19 21 Mar 2022 · 130 MW · 24 22 Mar 2022 · 97 MW · 34 23 Mar 2022 · 23 MW · 15
13 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar

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

The weather it burned in

12°high
44km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,990 ha in 2017.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.5% of the area of London (23 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. Općina Muć where it started
    1,395 ha reached on 13 Mar
    6.3 %
  2. Općina Ružić
    910 ha reached on 18 Mar
    5.5 %

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 land52 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland47 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 62 %

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)
13 Mar 7.9 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
14 Mar 9.6 °C 49 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
15 Mar 10.2 °C 49 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
16 Mar 12.1 °C 55 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
17 Mar 11.4 °C 48 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
18 Mar 12.2 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
19 Mar 10.8 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
20 Mar 8.7 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
21 Mar 9.8 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
22 Mar 13.1 °C 30 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
23 Mar 17.0 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
24 Mar after 16.6 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
25 Mar after 18.3 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
26 Mar after 17.0 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
27 Mar after 17.4 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
28 Mar after 14.5 °C 47 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Mar 2022
After · 30 Mar 2022

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 27 March 2022 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM1041 µg/m³
1112131415161718192021222324252627282930
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 · 106Every 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 Općina Muć fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 March 2022 to 23 March 2022 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 March 2022 to 18 March 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,304 hectares (23.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Općina Muć (1,395 ha, 6.3 %); Općina Ružić (910 ha, 5.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 12.2 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 44 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.

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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 13 March 2022 to 18 March 2022. 106 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-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.