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PRUNISOR fire, August 2024 PRUNISOR, LIVEZILE, HINOVA

Out · last measured on 25 Aug 2024

The fire started on 25 August 2024 in PRUNISOR, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 408 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 14th largest in Mehedinți since 2016 (of 87 with a page). Number 7 in Romania in 2024, of 92.

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
408ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
25 Aug 2024 – 25 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
25 Aug
2024
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

36°high
24km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.9 mm on 30 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. PRUNISOR where it started
    399 ha
    3.3 %
  2. LIVEZILE
    5 ha
    0.1 %
  3. HINOVA
    3 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

  • Agricultural areas92 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.6 %

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)
25 Aug 35.9 °C 15 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Aug after 35.5 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 47
27 Aug after 29.3 °C 34 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm High 34
28 Aug after 31.3 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.7 mm High 30
29 Aug after 32.7 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.7 mm High 33
30 Aug after 30.2 °C 27 % 29 km/h 3.9 mm Moderate 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Aug 2024
After · 1 Sept 2024

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 26 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.49
232425262728
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 PRUNISOR fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 25 August 2024 and 25 August 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 408 hectares (4.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: PRUNISOR (399 ha, 3.3 %); LIVEZILE (5 ha, 0.1 %); HINOVA (3 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Romania (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 ADM2 (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.