Fire near Berrocal (ES)

37.53°N, 6.52°W · first detected on 6 August at 23:29

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 6 August at 23:29 to 15 August at 05:04, that is 8 days, through 7,032 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 50,847 ha.

Detected extent: 50,847 ha
Cumulative power: 306,284 MW
Peak power: 1,928 MW
Detections: 7,032

“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 Berrocal (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
23 August at 16:29	9 MW	1	N20
15 August at 05:04	2 MW	1	N21
15 August at 04:17	4 MW	2	N20
15 August at 04:00	3 MW	1	N
15 August at 03:24	1 MW	1	N21
14 August at 17:03	1,177 MW	6	Aqua
14 August at 15:57	446 MW	21	N20
14 August at 15:40	555 MW	20	N
14 August at 15:04	631 MW	11	N21
14 August at 14:17	383 MW	9	N20
14 August at 11:07	437 MW	7	Terra
14 August at 06:02	69 MW	4	Aqua
14 August at 05:21	173 MW	34	N21
14 August at 04:38	264 MW	66	N20
14 August at 04:17	213 MW	78	N
14 August at 03:41	540 MW	69	N21
13 August at 23:06	8,327 MW	39	Terra
13 August at 18:03	5,060 MW	23	Aqua
13 August at 16:18	1,401 MW	67	N20
13 August at 15:57	1,735 MW	33	N
13 August at 15:23	3,186 MW	48	N21
13 August at 14:38	2,994 MW	72	N20
13 August at 12:04	1,732 MW	9	Terra
13 August at 07:01	576 MW	13	Aqua
13 August at 04:56	497 MW	101	N20
13 August at 04:38	722 MW	138	N
13 August at 04:02	1,007 MW	132	N21
13 August at 03:15	983 MW	85	N20
12 August at 22:27	6,951 MW	64	Terra
12 August at 17:26	14,142 MW	73	Aqua
12 August at 16:35	9,467 MW	121	N20
12 August at 16:18	5,922 MW	185	N
12 August at 15:41	8,059 MW	105	N21
12 August at 14:55	5,639 MW	113	N20
12 August at 14:37	6,816 MW	136	N
12 August at 11:26	1,536 MW	35	Terra
12 August at 06:25	1,060 MW	42	Aqua
12 August at 05:15	838 MW	130	N20
12 August at 04:56	1,067 MW	188	N
12 August at 04:19	1,762 MW	235	N21
12 August at 03:34	1,047 MW	190	N20
11 August at 23:27	3,875 MW	19	Terra
11 August at 18:26	7,340 MW	15	Aqua
11 August at 16:48	9,466 MW	30	Aqua
11 August at 16:35	6,983 MW	130	N
11 August at 15:59	5,053 MW	92	N21
11 August at 15:14	4,733 MW	94	N20
11 August at 14:55	4,661 MW	109	N
11 August at 14:19	3,123 MW	60	N21
11 August at 12:24	1,728 MW	12	Terra
11 August at 10:48	679 MW	5	Terra
11 August at 05:47	226 MW	3	Aqua
11 August at 05:34	241 MW	45	N20
11 August at 05:13	254 MW	113	N
11 August at 04:38	601 MW	139	N21
11 August at 03:54	625 MW	172	N20
11 August at 03:34	361 MW	101	N
10 August at 22:46	7,167 MW	73	Terra
10 August at 17:48	18,909 MW	82	Aqua
10 August at 16:20	7,846 MW	133	N21
10 August at 15:33	3,537 MW	94	N20
10 August at 15:14	7,193 MW	87	N
10 August at 14:38	3,970 MW	96	N21
10 August at 11:47	714 MW	17	Terra
10 August at 06:46	131 MW	9	Aqua
10 August at 05:34	213 MW	59	N
10 August at 04:58	521 MW	98	N21
10 August at 04:11	676 MW	180	N20
10 August at 03:54	697 MW	151	N
10 August at 03:15	957 MW	119	N21
9 August at 22:08	3,200 MW	42	Terra
9 August at 17:09	8,462 MW	25	Aqua
9 August at 15:53	22,014 MW	152	N20
9 August at 15:33	15,896 MW	193	N
9 August at 14:57	10,883 MW	115	N21
9 August at 11:07	86 MW	3	Terra
9 August at 06:08	228 MW	9	Aqua
9 August at 05:15	484 MW	69	N21
9 August at 04:32	723 MW	128	N20
9 August at 04:11	787 MW	116	N
9 August at 03:37	822 MW	131	N21
8 August at 23:06	528 MW	18	Terra
8 August at 18:09	5,338 MW	22	Aqua
8 August at 16:10	7,162 MW	134	N20
8 August at 15:53	7,232 MW	110	N
8 August at 15:16	4,087 MW	56	N21
8 August at 14:29	2,928 MW	53	N20
8 August at 12:06	577 MW	12	Terra
8 August at 07:08	598 MW	8	Aqua
8 August at 04:49	872 MW	114	N20
8 August at 04:32	598 MW	144	N
8 August at 03:56	1,066 MW	111	N21
7 August at 22:29	1,729 MW	21	Terra
7 August at 17:31	2,935 MW	16	Aqua
7 August at 16:29	1,956 MW	23	N20
7 August at 16:10	702 MW	17	N
7 August at 15:33	996 MW	16	N21
7 August at 14:49	519 MW	9	N20
7 August at 14:29	117 MW	9	N
7 August at 11:26	55 MW	1	Terra
7 August at 06:32	470 MW	9	Aqua
7 August at 05:08	356 MW	29	N20
7 August at 04:49	539 MW	23	N
7 August at 04:13	357 MW	29	N21
7 August at 03:28	601 MW	17	N20
6 August at 23:29	480 MW	4	Terra

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