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Tomislavgrad fire, 15 March 2017 Tomislavgrad

Out · last measured on 15 Mar 2017

The fire started on 15 March 2017 in Tomislavgrad, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 124 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 449th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 97 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2017, of 102.

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
124ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Mar 2017 – 15 Mar 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
15 Mar
2017
Danger at start
2
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

10°high
52km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 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. Tomislavgrad where it started
    124 ha
    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

  • Other natural land90 %
  • Agricultural areas6.4 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland4.0 %

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)
15 Mar 10.3 °C 35 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
16 Mar after 11.4 °C 29 % 51 km/h 0.1 mm Very low 3
17 Mar after 15.8 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
18 Mar after 12.5 °C 50 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
19 Mar after 14.7 °C 51 % 27 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 3
20 Mar after 17.0 °C 48 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
21 Mar after 17.5 °C 43 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
22 Mar after 16.9 °C 48 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
23 Mar after 17.4 °C 45 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
24 Mar after 19.0 °C 28 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
25 Mar after 17.4 °C 46 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Mar 2017
After · 22 Mar 2017

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Other fires nearby

All fires in Bosnia & Herzegovina ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tomislavgrad fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 March 2017 and 15 March 2017: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 124 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tomislavgrad (124 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 10.3 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 2, class Very low.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (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: 123 · 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 (Public Domain). 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.