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Trabadelo fire, September 2016 Trabadelo, Corullón

Out · last detection 10 Sept 2016, 03:14 UTC

The fire started on 9 September 2016 in Trabadelo, Spain, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 133 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 8 September 2016 at 16:52 and declared extinguished on 13 September 2016.

It is the 66th largest in León since 2016 (of 86 with a page). Number 58 in Spain in 2016, of 69.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
133ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
9 Sept 2016 – 9 Sept 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
9 Sept
2016
Heat detections
30
in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Energy released
146MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Sept 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Sept9 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

910

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

The weather it burned in

23°high
35km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 20.4 mm on 13 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Trabadelo 321 inhabitants · 2.4 km from the town where it started
    105 ha reached on 9 Sept
    1.5 %
  2. Corullón 789 inhabitants · 5.6 km from the town
    28 ha reached on 9 Sept
    0.4 %

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 land53 %
  • Coniferous forest27 %
  • Broadleaved forest20 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

Official record

According to EGIF (MITECO), this fire started on 8 September 2016 and burned 117 ha (the satellite measured 133 ha).

MITECO, Estadística General de Incendios Forestales (EGIF). This is the agency’s consolidated statistic: it measures the area in its own way, which is why it can differ from the satellite.

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)
9 Sept 22.8 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
10 Sept after 23.5 °C 47 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
11 Sept after 25.6 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
12 Sept after 27.6 °C 28 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
13 Sept after 18.5 °C 58 % 46 km/h 20.4 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 Sept 2016
After · 16 Sept 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 7 September 2016 the air beside the fire reached 44 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak44 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1068 µg/m³
78910111213
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 · 30Every 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 Trabadelo fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 9 September 2016 and 9 September 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire. According to EGIF (MITECO), it was detected on 8 September 2016 at 16:52 and declared extinguished on 13 September 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 133 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Trabadelo (105 ha, 1.5 %); Corullón (28 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.4 km of Trabadelo. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 22.8 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Spain (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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.