Burned area
satellite only148ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 19 February 2024
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RO · Romania ·
Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2024 Sălașu de Sus
Out · last measured on 7 Feb 2024
The fire started on 7 February 2024 in Sălașu de Sus, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 148 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 45th largest in Hunedoara since 2016 (of 72 with a page). Number 52 in Romania in 2024, of 92.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
7 Feb 2024 to 7 Feb 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 7 Feb 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only7 Feb 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 7 Feb 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model0.2FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 1.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 7 Feb 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model8.2°C · 74% RH
High of 8.2 °C and minimum humidity of 74% on 7 February 2024; gusts of 42 km/h on 7 February 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 7 Feb 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 148 ha
- Dates
- 7 Feb 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
- Name
- Sălașu de Sus
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/salasu-de-sus-2024-02?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire salasu-de-sus-2024-02.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-07 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | 2.4 | 74 | 11.5 | 41.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2024-02-08 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 3.3 | 70 | 11.2 | 38.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2024-02-09 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 2.1 | 59 | 10.8 | 30.6 | 0 | 0.4 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2024-02-10 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 5.4 | 57 | 10.7 | 35.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2024-02-11 | 0 | 0 | 11.7 | 7.2 | 51 | 15 | 54.4 | 0.8 | 1.5 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2024-02-12 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 4.5 | 81 | 8.8 | 33.5 | 6.9 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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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
- 148ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 7 Feb 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 7 Feb
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
- Natura 2000
- 100%
- of the perimeter is protected land
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
8°high
42km/h · peak gust
74%lowest humidity
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.9 mm on 12 Feb.
This area had burned before
97% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 110 ha in 2019, 128 ha in 2020, 118 ha in 2021, 104 ha in 2022, 10 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 144 ha that had burned before.
- 128 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, April 2020 317 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 110 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2019 185 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 68 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2022 119 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 36 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2022 100 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Sălașu de Sus where it started148 ha0.7 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Scrub and transitional woodland69 %
- Broadleaved forest22 %
- Agricultural areas8.4 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- LIC Strei - Hațeg ROSCI0236
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Feb | 8.2 °C | 74 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 0 |
| 8 Feb after | 8.3 °C | 70 % | 38 km/h | 0.6 mm | Very low 0 |
| 9 Feb after | 10.5 °C | 59 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 10 Feb after | 11.1 °C | 57 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 0 |
| 11 Feb after | 11.7 °C | 51 % | 54 km/h | 0.8 mm | Very low 2 |
| 12 Feb after | 7.5 °C | 81 % | 34 km/h | 6.9 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 0.2, a minimum humidity of 74% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 3.
FWI at the start
0.2
Minimum humidity
74 %
Days without rain
1
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2024
148 ha
1 day
FWI 0.2
Min. humidity 74 %
Mehadia fire, February 2025
416 ha
2 days
FWI 0.2
Min. humidity 66 %
68 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 4.9 mm on 13 Feb.
Kovacica Municipality fire, September 2018
176 ha
1 day
FWI 5.1
Min. humidity 68 %
193 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Lăpușnicel fire, February 2024
1,081 ha
3 days
FWI 0.2
Min. humidity 58 %
85 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.0 mm on 21 Feb.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 3. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
6.9 mmfirst rain
12 Feb5 days after it ended
42km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 7 Feb, and on 12 Feb 6.9 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 31 Jan 2024
After · 14 Feb 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 6 February 2024 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
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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)
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Sălașu de Sus fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 7 February 2024 and 7 February 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 148 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Sălașu de Sus (148 ha, 0.7 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 8.2 °C, humidity dropped to 74 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
- 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 · Emergency number and official warnings
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.