How long did the Rosoman fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 14 October 2017 and 14 October 2017: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 260 hectares (2.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Rosoman (201 ha, 1.5 %); Kavadartsi (59 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.3 km of Rosoman. 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 22.4 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.

Where does this data come from?

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

MK · North Macedonia · 2017-10-14 → 2017-10-14

Rosoman fire, October 2017 Општина Росоман · Rosoman, Kavadartsi

Out · last detection 14 Oct 2017, 11:35 UTC

The fire started on 14 October 2017 in Rosoman, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 260 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 29th largest in Vardar since 2016 (of 49 with a page). Number 24 in North Macedonia in 2017, of 44.

The power measured by the satellite is low (7.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 260ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 14 Oct 2017 – 14 Oct 2017
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 14 Oct; 2017
Heat detections: 2; in a single hotspot: 7 MW
Danger at start: 21; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 14MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Oct14 Oct

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

22°high

45km/h · peak gust

31%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.8 mm on 23 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Rosoman Општина Росоман 3,796 inhabitants · 11.3 km from the town where it started

201 ha reached on 14 Oct

1.5 %
Kavadartsi Општина Кавадарци 35,733 inhabitants · 15.6 km from the town

59 ha reached on 14 Oct

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

Other natural land61 %
Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
Agricultural areas16 %

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)
14 Oct	22.4 °C	31 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
15 Oct after	23.7 °C	24 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
16 Oct after	25.9 °C	25 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
17 Oct after	26.2 °C	27 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
18 Oct after	27.1 °C	23 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
19 Oct after	26.7 °C	18 %	15 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
20 Oct after	25.8 °C	24 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
21 Oct after	25.6 °C	21 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
22 Oct after	24.1 °C	26 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
23 Oct after	19.2 °C	57 %	46 km/h	7.8 mm	Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Oct 2017

After · 21 Oct 2017

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 14 October 2017 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³

Days over the guideline5 days

PM1036 µg/m³

WHO 15

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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 · 2Every 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 Rosoman fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 14 October 2017 and 14 October 2017: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 260 hectares (2.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Rosoman (201 ha, 1.5 %); Kavadartsi (59 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.3 km of Rosoman. 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 22.4 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (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: 193 · 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.

Where it burned