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Tanagra fire, July 2019 Τανάγρας · Tanagra

Out · last measured on 24 Jul 2019

The fire started on 24 July 2019 in Tanagra, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 235 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 35th largest in Central Greece since 2016 (of 53 with a page). Number 12 in Greece in 2019, of 19.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
235ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
24 Jul 2019 – 24 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
24 Jul
2019
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

31°high
42km/h · peak gust
41%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 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. Tanagra Τανάγρας where it started
    236 ha
    0.5 %

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

  • Coniferous forest46 %
  • Agricultural areas31 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub22 %

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)
24 Jul 31.1 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
25 Jul after 31.0 °C 27 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
26 Jul after 32.3 °C 30 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
27 Jul after 34.5 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
28 Jul after 35.2 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jul after 35.3 °C 28 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
30 Jul after 33.7 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
31 Jul after 32.7 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
1 Aug after 35.3 °C 31 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
2 Aug after 35.2 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Aug after 38.0 °C 23 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Jul 2019
After · 31 Jul 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 24 July 2019 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1028 µg/m³
222324252627
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tanagra fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 24 July 2019 and 24 July 2019: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 235 hectares (2.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tanagra (236 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 41 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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.