Fire near Artana (ES)

39.89°N, 0.26°W · first detected on 25 July at 11:09

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 25 July at 11:09 to 30 July at 11:09, that is 5 days, through 2,129 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 13,129 ha.

Detected extent: 13,129 ha
Cumulative power: 84,056 MW
Peak power: 4,855 MW
Detections: 2,129

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is centred on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole fire, from the first satellite pass to the last. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “12 h” stacks twelve hours , as the home map does, where stacking avoids an empty screen between two satellite passes. Both are true, but they say different things.

The detected extent

Outline of the burned area near Artana (ES), drawn over satellite imagery — The outline is the union of the ground footprints of every satellite detection of this fire, from the first pass to the last. The background is the EOX cloudless Sentinel-2 mosaic, 2024 vintage: it shows the landscape BEFORE these fires, not the burn scar.

The spread, pass after pass

Artana (ES) seen by Sentinel-2 on 23 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

Artana (ES) seen by Sentinel-2 on 28 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power	Detections	Sensor
13 August at 14:55	74 MW	1	Met10
13 August at 11:25	45 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 15:40	63 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 15:25	71 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 11:40	57 MW	1	Met10
30 July at 11:09	72 MW	2	Terra
30 July at 05:02	16 MW	4	N21
30 July at 04:17	25 MW	10	N20
30 July at 03:58	26 MW	9	N
30 July at 03:22	19 MW	7	N21
29 July at 16:44	390 MW	5	Aqua
29 July at 15:57	127 MW	7	N20
29 July at 15:40	478 MW	16	N
29 July at 15:04	302 MW	12	N21
29 July at 14:17	103 MW	10	N20
29 July at 14:00	348 MW	6	N
29 July at 10:30	38 MW	1	Terra
29 July at 05:45	38 MW	2	Aqua
29 July at 04:36	58 MW	22	N20
29 July at 04:17	84 MW	29	N
29 July at 03:41	64 MW	21	N21
29 July at 02:56	32 MW	12	N20
28 July at 22:32	42 MW	4	Terra
28 July at 15:57	209 MW	32	N
28 July at 15:23	296 MW	28	N21
28 July at 14:38	453 MW	21	N20
28 July at 14:17	644 MW	32	N
28 July at 11:28	139 MW	3	Terra
28 July at 04:53	44 MW	18	N20
28 July at 04:36	63 MW	22	N
28 July at 04:00	85 MW	33	N21
28 July at 03:13	36 MW	17	N20
28 July at 02:56	13 MW	3	N
27 July at 21:53	56 MW	4	Terra
27 July at 17:07	710 MW	21	Aqua
27 July at 16:18	696 MW	24	N
27 July at 15:42	393 MW	45	N21
27 July at 14:55	977 MW	75	N20
27 July at 14:36	806 MW	63	N
27 July at 14:02	1,092 MW	43	N21
27 July at 10:50	1,321 MW	16	Terra
27 July at 06:04	397 MW	16	Aqua
27 July at 05:15	192 MW	40	N20
27 July at 04:53	239 MW	81	N
27 July at 04:19	363 MW	65	N21
27 July at 03:34	465 MW	75	N20
27 July at 03:13	285 MW	66	N
26 July at 22:51	500 MW	6	Terra
26 July at 16:29	13,821 MW	14	Aqua
26 July at 15:59	12,901 MW	73	N21
26 July at 15:14	3,974 MW	64	N20
26 July at 14:55	2,126 MW	37	N
26 July at 14:19	6,941 MW	74	N21
26 July at 11:49	721 MW	10	Terra
26 July at 05:28	1,124 MW	13	Aqua
26 July at 05:13	586 MW	59	N
26 July at 04:38	766 MW	73	N21
26 July at 03:52	1,045 MW	169	N20
26 July at 03:34	888 MW	85	N
26 July at 02:58	1,451 MW	122	N21
25 July at 22:14	2,400 MW	41	Terra
25 July at 17:29	3,211 MW	19	Aqua
25 July at 15:33	4,527 MW	79	N20
25 July at 15:14	5,488 MW	88	N
25 July at 14:38	7,017 MW	50	N21
25 July at 13:53	2,324 MW	30	N20
25 July at 11:09	15 MW	1	Terra

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