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West Achaea fire, January 2018 Δυτικής Αχαΐας · West Achaea

Out · last detection 14 Jan 2018, 11:08 UTC

The fire started on 14 January 2018 in West Achaea, Greece, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 134 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Western Greece since 2016 (of 36 with a page). Number 13 in Greece in 2018, of 17.

The power measured by the satellite is low (9.9 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
134ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Jan 2018 – 14 Jan 2018
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Jan
2018
Heat detections
3
in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
27MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jan14 Jan

How it evolved, day by day

14

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

The weather it burned in

15°high
32km/h · peak gust
54%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 14.0 mm on 15 Jan.

This area had burned before

25% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 33 ha in 2016, 2 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. West Achaea Δυτικής Αχαΐας where it started
    134 ha reached on 14 Jan
    0.2 %

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 land100 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %

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)
14 Jan 14.8 °C 54 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 0
15 Jan after 13.5 °C 80 % 36 km/h 14.0 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jan 2018
After · 21 Jan 2018

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 14 January 2018 the air beside the fire reached 34 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak34 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1042 µg/m³
121314151617
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 · 3Every 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 West Achaea fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 January 2018 and 14 January 2018: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 134 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered West Achaea (134 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 14.8 °C, humidity dropped to 54 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
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.