Fire near 42.48°N, 8.78°E

What the satellites measured

This fire is not in the last thirty days of the fire list, but detections remain around this point: the curve below is rebuilt from the raw pixels, which are kept for a hundred days.

“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.

Timeline

Contained50 hastarted on 27 August at 16:32 · contained on 28 August at 10:56

1. Reported contained28 August at 10:56

   Incendie à Calenzana : le feu fixé après avoir parcouru plus de 50 hectares, plusieurs maisons détruites — Stampa Paese

2. Area revised to 50 ha28 August at 10:32

   VIDÉO. 50 ha parcourus par les flammes dans l'incendie de la plaine de Calenzana — France 3 Corse

3. Flare-up28 August at 10:32

   VIDÉO. 50 ha parcourus par les flammes dans l'incendie de la plaine de Calenzana — France 3 Corse

4. Reported contained28 August at 08:20

   Calenzana : le feu est fixé mais les dégâts sont importants — alta-frequenza

5. Flare-up28 August at 08:08

   TEMOIGNAGE. 7 maisons et 5 mobil-homes détruits par le feu à Calenzana, l'incendie est désormais fixé — France 3 Corse

6. Reported contained28 August at 07:42

   7 maisons et 5 mobil-homes détruits par le feu à Calenzana, l'incendie est désormais fixé — France 3 Régions

7. Area revised to 40 ha27 August at 20:47

   En Haute-Corse, sept maisons touchées par un incendie à Calenzana, plus de 40 hectares parcourus — franceinfo

8. First report27 August at 16:32

   Départ de feu à Calenzana : l'incendie alimenté par un vent violent, des évacuations en cours — Corse Matin

A "contained" fire is no longer spreading but is not out: crews remain on site and it can flare up again. Statuses and areas come from press reports and official sources, matched automatically; they are not an official record — only the prefecture and the fire service are authoritative. An entry with no news for ten days is closed automatically, and each entry's history keeps track of who announced what, and when.

The location

No satellite detected this fire: it is known only through press and official sources. There is therefore nothing to replay — the map shows the place, and the timeline above tells what was announced. This is the most common case in France: a fire of a few hectares brought under control in the afternoon slips between two overpasses without leaving a single hot pixel.

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.

Follow live

The map shows active fires in 3D, with smoke plumes, forecast wind, drop zones and the live position of the Canadair, Dash 8 and Air Tractor aircraft of the French Sécurité civile.