Spinazzola fire, June 2024 Spinazzola, Andria
The fire started on 12 June 2024 in Spinazzola, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 129 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 17th largest in Barletta-Andria-Trani since 2016 (of 21 with a page). Number 78 in Italy in 2024, of 112.
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- Burnt area
- 129ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 12 Jun 2024 – 13 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 12 Jun
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 7
- in a single hotspot: 42 MW
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 60MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4 ha in 2023.
What happened to each town
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65 ha reached on 12 Jun0.4 %
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Andria 97,146 inhabitants · 22.1 km from the centre64 ha reached on 13 Jun0.2 %
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
- Other natural land89 %
- Agricultural areas11 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA + LIC Murgia Alta IT9120007
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun | 28.7 °C | 27 % | 41 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 26 |
| 13 Jun | 28.2 °C | 27 % | 46 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 22 |
| 14 Jun after | 25.1 °C | 27 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 15 Jun after | 27.7 °C | 23 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 16 Jun after | 30.8 °C | 20 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 17 Jun after | 27.8 °C | 32 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 18 Jun after | 30.2 °C | 26 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 19 Jun after | 33.7 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 20 Jun after | 34.3 °C | 25 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 21 Jun after | 33.4 °C | 28 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 22 Jun after | 33.2 °C | 26 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 23 Jun after | 30.5 °C | 29 % | 32 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 34 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 10 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 7Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 753 haMinervino Murge15 July 2026 · 6 days · 11 km away
- 3,455 haGravina in Puglia25 August 2026 · 5 days · 14 km away
- 601 haMinervino Murge10 August 2026 · 1 day · 14 km away
- 585 haAndriaJune 2022 · 3 days · 17 km away
- 912 haMontemiloneJuly 2025 · 1 day · 22 km away
- 1,059 haGravina in PugliaJuly 2021 · 5 days · 31 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Spinazzola fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 12 June 2024 and 13 June 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 129 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Spinazzola (65 ha, 0.4 %); Andria (64 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Spinazzola and came within 13.0 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.7 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, class 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes 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. 7 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 2025, 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 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.