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Rodeiro fire, July 2022 Rodeiro

Out · last detection 16 Jul 2022, 02:43 UTC

The fire started on 15 July 2022 in Rodeiro, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 108 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 14 July 2022 at 20:56 and declared extinguished on 21 July 2022.

It is the 33th largest in Pontevedra since 2016 (of 33 with a page). Number 184 in Spain in 2022, of 196.

Burnt area
108ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
15 Jul 2022 – 16 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
15 Jul
2022
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 72 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Energy released
239MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

16 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Jul16 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

1516

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
51km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

  1. Rodeiro 2,232 inhabitants · 4.5 km from the town where it started
    108 ha reached on 15 Jul
    0.7 %

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 land71 %
  • Broadleaved forest27 %
  • Mixed forest2.7 %

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

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 14 July 2022 and burned 110 ha (the satellite measured 108 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)
15 Jul 31.2 °C 38 % 51 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
16 Jul 29.8 °C 52 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
17 Jul after 31.3 °C 43 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
18 Jul after 25.1 °C 56 % 49 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
19 Jul after 19.1 °C 65 % 52 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 12
20 Jul after 24.6 °C 55 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
21 Jul after 26.3 °C 58 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
22 Jul after 21.6 °C 59 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
23 Jul after 26.6 °C 47 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
24 Jul after 24.6 °C 52 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
25 Jul after 22.8 °C 53 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
26 Jul after 22.5 °C 51 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Jul 2022
After · 23 Jul 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 15 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 31 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak31 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1058 µg/m³
13141516171819
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 · 11Every 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 Rodeiro fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 July 2022 and 16 July 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 14 July 2022 at 20:56 and declared extinguished on 21 July 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 108 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Rodeiro (108 ha, 0.7 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.5 km of Rodeiro. 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 31.2 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class High.
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.