Tiszafnred fire, July 2022 Tiszafnred
The fire started on 19 July 2022 in Tiszafnred, Hungary, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 740 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the largest fire in Hajdú-Bihar since 2016 (of 10 with a page). The largest in Hungary in 2022, of 22.
- Burnt area
- 740ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 19 Jul 2022 – 21 Jul 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 19 Jul
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 53
- in a single hotspot: 240 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2.0GW
- sum of detected power
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. Rain came after the fire: 7.6 mm on 30 Jul.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Tiszafnred where it started739 ha reached on 19 Jul4.6 %
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 land88 %
- Agricultural areas11 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA + LIC Hortobágy HUHN10002 · HUHN20002
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul | 33.1 °C | 14 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 20 Jul | 35.8 °C | 17 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 21 Jul | 37.0 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 22 Jul after | 37.7 °C | 16 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 23 Jul after | 40.1 °C | 13 % | 33 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 46 |
| 24 Jul after | 31.5 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 39 |
| 25 Jul after | 33.0 °C | 19 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 26 Jul after | 33.9 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 48 |
| 27 Jul after | 31.1 °C | 23 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 28 Jul after | 32.5 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 40 |
| 29 Jul after | 33.0 °C | 32 % | 26 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 37 |
| 30 Jul after | 29.7 °C | 48 % | 29 km/h | 7.6 mm | Low 6 |
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.
Detections table · 53Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Tiszafnred fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 19 July 2022 and 21 July 2022: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 740 hectares (7.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Tiszafnred (739 ha, 4.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Hungary (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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.