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Parres fire, October 2022 Parres, Piloña

Out · last measured on 27 Oct 2022

The fire started on 27 October 2022 in Parres, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 120 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 27 October 2022 at 03:01 and declared extinguished on 28 October 2022.

It is the 173th largest in Asturias since 2016 (of 225 with a page). Number 167 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
120ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
27 Oct 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
27 Oct
2022
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

24°high
75km/h · peak gust
48%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.3 mm on 28 Oct.

This area had burned before

39% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 47 ha in 2019.

What happened to each town

  1. Parres 5,150 inhabitants · 2.6 km from the town where it started
    120 ha
    1.0 %
  2. Piloña 6,716 inhabitants · 10.0 km from the town
    0 ha
    0.0 %

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

  • Other natural land93 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland6.4 %
  • Agricultural areas0.8 %

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

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 27 October 2022 and burned 119 ha (the satellite measured 120 ha).

MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

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)
27 Oct 24.5 °C 48 % 75 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
28 Oct after 21.0 °C 59 % 66 km/h 3.3 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Oct 2022
After · 3 Nov 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 30 October 2022 the air beside the fire reached 46 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak46 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1057 µg/m³
Optical depth0.35
252627282930
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Parres fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 27 October 2022 and 27 October 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 27 October 2022 at 03:01 and declared extinguished on 28 October 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 120 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Parres (120 ha, 1.0 %); Piloña (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.6 km of Parres. 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 24.5 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 75 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 Spain (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

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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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.