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Stendal fire, June 2018 Stendal, Börde

Out · last detection 28 Jun 2018, 11:19 UTC

The fire started on 27 June 2018 in Stendal, Germany, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 305 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 3 in Germany in 2018, of 6.

Burnt area
305ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
27 Jun 2018 – 28 Jun 2018
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
27 Jun
2018
Heat detections
12
in a single hotspot: 142 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
604MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Jun 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Jun28 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

2728

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

27°high
41km/h · peak gust
33%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 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

  1. Stendal where it started
    228 ha reached on 27 Jun
    0.1 %
  2. Börde
    76 ha reached on 27 Jun
    0.0 %

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

  • Other natural land98 %
  • Mixed forest2.0 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

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)
27 Jun 23.7 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
28 Jun 26.9 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
29 Jun after 28.5 °C 26 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
30 Jun after 22.1 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
1 Jul after 21.9 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
2 Jul after 25.2 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jul after 27.6 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
4 Jul after 30.4 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Jul after 28.9 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm High 34
6 Jul after 23.4 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Jul after 24.8 °C 30 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
8 Jul after 26.0 °C 38 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Jun 2018
After · 5 Jul 2018

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 · 12Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Stendal fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 27 June 2018 and 28 June 2018: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 305 hectares (3.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Stendal (228 ha, 0.1 %); Börde (76 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.9 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 41 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 Germany (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

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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 ADM3 (Data license Germany - Attribution - Version 2.0). 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.