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Tadmor fire, June 2019 Tadmor

Out · last detection 13 Jun 2019, 22:32 UTC

The fire started on 11 June 2019 in Tadmor, Syria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,612 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Homs since 2016 (of 34 with a page). Number 27 in Syria in 2019, of 163.

Burnt area
1,612ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
11 Jun 2019 – 12 Jun 2019
Municipalities hit
1
subdistricts
Started on
11 Jun
2019
Heat detections
91
in a single hotspot: 269 MW
Danger at start
68
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
4.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Jun 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jun12 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

111213

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

The weather it burned in

33°high
52km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 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. Tadmor where it started
    1,628 ha reached on 4 Jun
    0.1 %

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

  • Agricultural areas70 %
  • Other natural land30 %

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)
4 Jun 32.1 °C 20 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
5 Jun 31.6 °C 21 % 41 km/h 0.9 mm Very high 49
6 Jun 28.8 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 39
7 Jun 30.7 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Jun 32.3 °C 22 % 39 km/h 1.7 mm High 34
9 Jun 33.0 °C 17 % 38 km/h 2.4 mm High 35
10 Jun 31.3 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jun 29.8 °C 18 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
12 Jun 29.1 °C 23 % 48 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 43
13 Jun after 29.3 °C 20 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Jun after 28.2 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Jun after 30.9 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
16 Jun after 32.4 °C 17 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
17 Jun after 28.0 °C 30 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Jun after 27.8 °C 30 % 50 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 39
19 Jun after 27.5 °C 30 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Jun after 27.1 °C 33 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
21 Jun after 28.9 °C 31 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
22 Jun after 29.6 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
23 Jun after 31.7 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
24 Jun after 33.8 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Jun after 36.0 °C 10 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
26 Jun after 37.4 °C 13 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
27 Jun after 34.1 °C 22 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
28 Jun after 32.2 °C 25 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
29 Jun after 30.8 °C 32 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jun 2019
After · 19 Jun 2019

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 · 91Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tadmor fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 11 June 2019 and 12 June 2019: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,612 hectares (16.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tadmor (1,628 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 68, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Syria (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.

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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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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.