How long did the Ourique fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 10 June 2019 and 10 June 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to ICNF, it was detected on 10 June 2019 at 13:21 and declared extinguished on 11 June 2019.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 505 hectares (5.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ourique (489 ha, 2.0 %); Santana da Serra (16 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 7.6 km of Ourique. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 25.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Portugal (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

PT · Portugal · 2019-06-10 → 2019-06-10

Ourique fire, June 2019 Ourique, Santana da Serra

Out · last detection 10 Jun 2019, 14:31 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2019 in Ourique, Portugal, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 505 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to ICNF, it was detected on 10 June 2019 at 13:21 and declared extinguished on 11 June 2019.

Number 11 in Portugal in 2019, of 52.

Burnt area: 505ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 10 Jun 2019 – 10 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit: 2; freguesias
Started on: 10 Jun; 2019
Heat detections: 16; in a single hotspot: 104 MW
Danger at start: 40; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 775MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun10 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

25°high

51km/h · peak gust

32%lowest humidity

It had gone 45 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Ourique 2,805 inhabitants · 7.6 km from the town where it started

489 ha reached on 10 Jun

2.0 %
Santana da Serra 660 inhabitants · 8.0 km from the town

16 ha

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Scrub and transitional woodland72 %
Broadleaved forest14 %
Agricultural areas14 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

Official record

According to ICNF, this fire started on 10 June 2019 and burned 549 ha (the satellite measured 505 ha).

Ourique Ourique 10 June 2019 · 13:21 549 ha · extinguished on 11 June 2019 · cause: negligence

ICNF (Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas). This is the agency’s operational record: its figures may be revised when the year’s statistics are closed.

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)
10 Jun	25.3 °C	32 %	51 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
11 Jun after	25.5 °C	30 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
12 Jun after	27.6 °C	18 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
13 Jun after	23.5 °C	31 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
14 Jun after	20.6 °C	40 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
15 Jun after	24.8 °C	33 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
16 Jun after	27.5 °C	31 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
17 Jun after	27.9 °C	25 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
18 Jun after	24.0 °C	60 %	48 km/h	0.8 mm	High 22
19 Jun after	24.2 °C	53 %	36 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 21
20 Jun after	24.5 °C	44 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 3 Jun 2019

After · 17 Jun 2019

Before After

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 12 June 2019 the air beside the fire reached 9 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak9 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1019 µg/m³

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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 · 16Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ourique fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 10 June 2019 and 10 June 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to ICNF, it was detected on 10 June 2019 at 13:21 and declared extinguished on 11 June 2019.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 505 hectares (5.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ourique (489 ha, 2.0 %); Santana da Serra (16 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 7.6 km of Ourique. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 25.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Portugal (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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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 ADM3 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.

Where it burned