Burned area
satellite only176ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 26 January 2022
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ME · Montenegro ·
Šavnik Municipality fire, 17 March 2020 Šavnik Municipality
Out · last measured on 17 Mar 2020
The fire started on 17 March 2020 in Šavnik Municipality, Montenegro, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 176 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
Number 58 in Montenegro in 2020, of 106.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
17 Mar 2020 to 17 Mar 2020: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 17 Mar 2020 – 17 Mar 2020
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Start
satellite only17 Mar 2020
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 17 Mar 2020
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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
model1.8FWI · 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
- 17 Mar 2020, 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
model13.7°C · 26% RH
High of 13.7 °C and minimum humidity of 26% on 17 March 2020; gusts of 21 km/h on 17 March 2020.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 17 Mar 2020 – 17 Mar 2020
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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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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- Area
- 176 ha
- Dates
- 17 Mar 2020 – 17 Mar 2020
- Name
- Šavnik Municipality
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/savnik-municipality-2020-03?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 savnik-municipality-2020-03.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-17 | 0 | 0 | 13.7 | -1 | 26 | 7.4 | 20.9 | 0 | 1.8 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2020-03-18 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 0.7 | 33 | 15.8 | 45.7 | 0 | 3.7 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2020-03-19 | 0 | 0 | 13.7 | 0.4 | 22 | 7.4 | 23 | 0 | 4 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2020-03-20 | 0 | 0 | 17.1 | 1.3 | 22 | 7.4 | 19.1 | 0 | 5.3 | bajo | 0 |
| 2020-03-21 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.7 | 36 | 11.8 | 33.5 | 0 | 6 | bajo | 0 |
| 2020-03-22 | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | -0.1 | 61 | 13 | 36.7 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 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
- 176ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 17 Mar 2020 – 17 Mar 2020
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 17 Mar
- 2020
- Danger at start
- 2
- Very low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
14°high
21km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 22 Mar.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Šavnik Municipality where it started176 ha0.3 %
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 woodland100 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar | 13.7 °C | 26 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 18 Mar after | 12.2 °C | 33 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 19 Mar after | 13.7 °C | 22 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 20 Mar after | 17.1 °C | 22 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 21 Mar after | 14.0 °C | 36 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 22 Mar after | 7.4 °C | 61 % | 37 km/h | 1.4 mm | Very low 1 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 1.8, a minimum humidity of 26% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 19.
FWI at the start
1.8
Minimum humidity
26 %
Days without rain
1
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Šavnik Municipality fire, 17 March 2020
176 ha
1 day
FWI 1.8
Min. humidity 26 %
Nikšić Municipality fire, March 2019
123 ha
1 day
FWI 2.3
Min. humidity 27 %
28 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 27 Mar.
Nikšić Municipality fire, February 2020
457 ha
5 days
FWI 0.5
Min. humidity 27 %
18 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 25 Feb.
Danilovgrad Municipality fire, March 2025
279 ha
3 days
FWI 2.6
Min. humidity 27 %
46 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.7 mm on 10 Mar.
Tropojë fire, March 2022
554 ha
5 days
FWI 0.9
Min. humidity 26 %
124 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.3 mm on 30 Mar.
Trebinje fire, March 2022
178 ha
3 days
FWI 0.9
Min. humidity 27 %
71 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 4 days
- median duration
- 328 ha
- median area
- 0 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.5 mm
- rain at the end (median; 17 of 19 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 176 ha against a median of 328 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 4 days.
In 2 of 19, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.5 mm.
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
1.4 mmfirst rain
22 Mar5 days after it ended
21km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 17 Mar, and on 22 Mar 1.4 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 17 of 19, with a median of 1.5 mm.
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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Other fires nearby
- 2,005 haŠavnik Municipality27 August 2026 · 23 days · 8 km away
- 2,057 haNikšić Municipality18 August 2017 · 15 days · 14 km away
- 2,226 haPlužine Municipality9 December 2016 · 3 days · 17 km away
- 2,784 haNikšić Municipality4 August 2021 · 21 days · 23 km away
- 2,397 haNikšić Municipality27 August 2026 · 16 days · 30 km away
- 4,394 haCetinje Municipality3 August 2021 · 20 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Šavnik Municipality fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 17 March 2020 and 17 March 2020: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 176 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Šavnik Municipality (176 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 13.7 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 21 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 2, class Very low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Montenegro (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 19. Their median duration was 4 days and their median area 328 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. In 2 of 19, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.5 mm.
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 · 123 · Emergency number and official warnings
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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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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 ADM1 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.