سجنان fire, July 2021 سجنان, جومين
The fire started on 25 July 2021 in سجنان, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 362 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 9th largest in Bizerte since 2016 (of 39 with a page). Number 17 in Tunisia in 2021, of 37.
- Burnt area
- 362ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 25 Jul 2021 – 28 Jul 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- delegations
- Started on
- 25 Jul
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 13
- in a single hotspot: 180 MW
- Danger at start
- 54
- Extreme · FWI index
- Energy released
- 700MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
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
It had gone 53 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
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سجنان where it started337 ha reached on 25 Jul0.5 %
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25 ha0.0 %
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 forest79 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland9.4 %
- Coniferous forest6.9 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub2.8 %
- Agricultural areas1.4 %
- Artificial surfaces0.6 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jul | 40.5 °C | 19 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 26 Jul | 38.9 °C | 22 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 27 Jul | 36.8 °C | 28 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 28 Jul | 40.6 °C | 12 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 29 Jul after | 38.6 °C | 21 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 30 Jul after | 37.3 °C | 31 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 31 Jul after | 41.7 °C | 15 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 1 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 42 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 2 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 38 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 3 Aug after | 37.6 °C | 35 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 4 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 48 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 5 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Aug after | 36.9 °C | 26 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 7 Aug after | 42.5 °C | 20 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
Detections table · 13Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the سجنان fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 25 July 2021 and 28 July 2021: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 362 hectares (3.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: سجنان (337 ha, 0.5 %); جومين (25 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.6 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (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: 198
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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 (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.