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Rose fire, 3 August 2017 Rose, San Pietro in Guarano

Out · last detection 7 Aug 2017, 01:27 UTC

The fire started on 3 August 2017 in Rose, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,251 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 3th largest in Cosenza since 2016 (of 145 with a page). Number 15 in Italy in 2017, of 361.

Burnt area
1,251ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
6days
3 Aug 2017 – 8 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
3 Aug
2017
Heat detections
77
in a single hotspot: 109 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Energy released
939MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Aug 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Aug8 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

34567

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
45km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 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

  1. Rose 4,133 inhabitants · 2.1 km from the town where it started
    998 ha reached on 3 Aug
    21 %
  2. San Pietro in Guarano 3,372 inhabitants · 1.4 km from the town
    255 ha reached on 5 Aug
    5.3 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest33 %
  • Agricultural areas28 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
  • Mixed forest9.1 %
  • Coniferous forest9.0 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub8.2 %
  • Other natural land2.2 %

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)
3 Aug 33.8 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
4 Aug 35.5 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 Aug 34.8 °C 24 % 29 km/h 1.0 mm High 28
6 Aug 34.9 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Aug 34.4 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
8 Aug 34.0 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
9 Aug after 34.5 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Aug after 34.8 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Aug after 28.9 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Aug after 23.9 °C 48 % 50 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
13 Aug after 25.8 °C 31 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm High 28
14 Aug after 26.1 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
15 Aug after 28.1 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Aug after 30.0 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Aug after 30.4 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Aug after 30.9 °C 22 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Aug after 29.8 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Aug after 29.2 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Aug after 26.7 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Jul 2017
After · 15 Aug 2017

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 6 August 2017 the air beside the fire reached 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak29 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM1046 µg/m³
1234567891011121314
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 · 77Every 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 Rose fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 August 2017 and 8 August 2017: 6 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,251 hectares (12.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Rose (998 ha, 21 %); San Pietro in Guarano (255 ha, 5.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.4 km of San Pietro in Guarano. 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 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 45 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 Italy (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 · 1515

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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 ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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.