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Tanagra fire, June 2016 Τανάγρας · Tanagra

Out · last detection 28 Jun 2016, 11:03 UTC

The fire started on 25 June 2016 in Tanagra, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,314 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 11th largest in Central Greece since 2016 (of 53 with a page). Number 8 in Greece in 2016, of 33.

Burnt area
1,314ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
25 Jun 2016 – 28 Jun 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
25 Jun
2016
Heat detections
93
in a single hotspot: 142 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.3GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Jun 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Jun28 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

262728

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
52km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.7 mm on 7 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Tanagra Τανάγρας where it started
    1,314 ha reached on 26 Jun
    3.0 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland81 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub5.2 %
  • Coniferous forest3.3 %
  • Artificial surfaces3.0 %
  • Other natural land2.9 %
  • Mixed forest2.8 %
  • Agricultural areas2.3 %

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)
25 Jun 30.0 °C 44 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Jun 27.3 °C 55 % 52 km/h 5.7 mm Low 6
27 Jun 32.5 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun 31.4 °C 28 % 32 km/h 3.5 mm Low 10
29 Jun after 27.1 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
30 Jun after 29.8 °C 33 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
1 Jul after 31.8 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul after 31.7 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.6 mm High 25
3 Jul after 30.5 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm High 27
4 Jul after 30.4 °C 33 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Jul after 29.8 °C 38 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
6 Jul after 31.1 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Jul after 28.1 °C 42 % 43 km/h 2.7 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jun 2016
After · 5 Jul 2016

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 · Copernicus

On 27 June 2016 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak27 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM1041 µg/m³
23242526272829301
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 93Every 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 Tanagra fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 25 June 2016 and 28 June 2016: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,314 hectares (13.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tanagra (1,314 ha, 3.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Greece (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 · 199

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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 (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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.