Fire near Bailo (ES)

42.46°N, 0.73°W · first detected on 10 August at 13:53

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 10 August at 13:53 to 18 August at 04:06, that is 8 days, through 2,136 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 18,537 ha.

Detected extent: 18,537 ha
Cumulative power: 82,096 MW
Peak power: 5,617 MW
Detections: 2,136

“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 framed on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole known life of the fire — from the first trace, satellite or report, to the last announcement from emergency services — and the ticks on the bar mark those announcements. Detections often stop before containment: a fire stops radiating once it stops spreading, which is exactly when it is declared contained. “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 Bailo (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.

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
31 August at 18:10	33 MW	1	Met10
31 August at 17:25	46 MW	1	Met10
30 August at 16:25	70 MW	1	Met10
30 August at 15:10	137 MW	1	Met9
30 August at 11:25	51 MW	1	Met10
30 August at 10:10	55 MW	1	Met9
30 August at 09:55	43 MW	1	Met9
29 August at 15:40	124 MW	1	Met9
29 August at 15:10	131 MW	1	Met9
29 August at 14:55	123 MW	1	Met9
29 August at 14:40	210 MW	2	Met9
29 August at 14:25	129 MW	1	Met9
29 August at 14:10	209 MW	2	Met9
29 August at 13:55	274 MW	3	Met9
29 August at 13:40	156 MW	2	Met9
29 August at 13:25	341 MW	4	Met9
29 August at 10:10	84 MW	2	Met9
29 August at 09:55	40 MW	1	Met9
18 August at 04:06	1 MW	1	N21
17 August at 22:27	110 MW	4	Terra
16 August at 15:23	78 MW	4	N20
16 August at 15:01	77 MW	5	N
16 August at 14:25	24 MW	2	N21
16 August at 03:58	44 MW	18	N20
16 August at 03:39	19 MW	8	N
15 August at 17:44	594 MW	4	Aqua
15 August at 15:40	13 MW	1	N20
15 August at 11:43	1,039 MW	8	Terra
15 August at 06:38	36 MW	2	Aqua
15 August at 05:02	143 MW	22	N21
15 August at 04:17	144 MW	35	N20
15 August at 03:58	219 MW	47	N
15 August at 03:22	309 MW	18	N21
14 August at 17:05	3,444 MW	34	Aqua
14 August at 15:59	476 MW	40	N20
14 August at 15:40	690 MW	49	N
14 August at 15:04	1,052 MW	50	N21
14 August at 14:19	5,446 MW	42	N20
14 August at 14:00	2,200 MW	52	N
14 August at 11:05	731 MW	12	Terra
14 August at 06:02	180 MW	10	Aqua
14 August at 04:36	402 MW	78	N20
14 August at 04:15	613 MW	87	N
14 August at 03:39	440 MW	70	N21
14 August at 02:56	172 MW	41	N20
13 August at 23:06	218 MW	6	Terra
13 August at 16:27	735 MW	7	Aqua
13 August at 15:59	1,642 MW	73	N
13 August at 15:25	2,106 MW	63	N21
13 August at 14:38	969 MW	25	N20
13 August at 14:19	522 MW	18	N
13 August at 13:45	2,086 MW	20	N21
13 August at 12:04	284 MW	3	Terra
13 August at 10:24	873 MW	2	Terra
13 August at 06:59	239 MW	4	Aqua
13 August at 05:23	58 MW	2	Aqua
13 August at 04:53	222 MW	59	N20
13 August at 04:36	281 MW	58	N
13 August at 04:00	436 MW	98	N21
13 August at 03:13	649 MW	97	N20
12 August at 22:29	1,199 MW	33	Terra
12 August at 17:26	1,570 MW	9	Aqua
12 August at 16:18	805 MW	37	N
12 August at 15:42	3,665 MW	60	N21
12 August at 14:55	542 MW	29	N20
12 August at 14:38	379 MW	23	N
12 August at 14:02	542 MW	21	N21
12 August at 11:24	38 MW	4	Terra
12 August at 06:23	69 MW	6	Aqua
12 August at 05:15	112 MW	20	N20
12 August at 04:53	183 MW	27	N
12 August at 04:17	198 MW	41	N21
12 August at 03:34	80 MW	32	N20
12 August at 03:13	67 MW	24	N
11 August at 21:49	351 MW	10	Terra
11 August at 16:48	2,229 MW	19	Aqua
11 August at 16:01	1,175 MW	25	N21
11 August at 15:16	756 MW	25	N20
11 August at 14:55	548 MW	28	N
11 August at 14:19	620 MW	34	N21
11 August at 10:45	49 MW	2	Terra
11 August at 05:45	40 MW	3	Aqua
11 August at 05:13	47 MW	23	N
11 August at 04:38	185 MW	39	N21
11 August at 03:52	190 MW	46	N20
11 August at 03:32	177 MW	42	N
11 August at 02:56	8 MW	6	N21
10 August at 17:48	7,196 MW	7	Aqua
10 August at 16:12	13,767 MW	7	Aqua
10 August at 15:33	8,481 MW	66	N20
10 August at 15:16	3,681 MW	69	N
10 August at 14:40	2,198 MW	29	N21
10 August at 13:53	939 MW	11	N20

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