Fire near Corte

42.27°N, 9.07°E · first detected on 16 July at 02:43

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 16 July at 02:43 to 2 August at 03:20, that is 17 days, through 641 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 2,312 ha.

Detected extent: 2,312 ha
Cumulative power: 7,500 MW
Peak power: 181 MW
Detections: 641

“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.

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
2 August at 03:20	1 MW	1	N20
1 August at 10:48	14 MW	1	Terra
1 August at 03:39	1 MW	1	N20
1 August at 03:20	2 MW	2	N
1 August at 02:43	3 MW	2	N21
29 July at 14:17	5 MW	1	N20
29 July at 14:00	7 MW	1	N
29 July at 13:23	4 MW	1	N21
27 July at 03:32	8 MW	3	N20
27 July at 03:13	12 MW	5	N
27 July at 02:37	32 MW	6	N21
26 July at 16:29	27 MW	2	Aqua
26 July at 15:14	8 MW	1	N20
26 July at 14:55	19 MW	3	N
26 July at 14:19	50 MW	2	N21
26 July at 13:34	4 MW	1	N20
25 July at 15:53	21 MW	1	Aqua
25 July at 15:14	3 MW	1	N
25 July at 14:38	16 MW	3	N21
25 July at 13:53	31 MW	3	N20
25 July at 13:34	8 MW	2	N
25 July at 04:11	15 MW	7	N20
25 July at 03:49	17 MW	8	N
25 July at 03:15	27 MW	15	N21
25 July at 02:30	9 MW	5	N20
24 July at 21:34	20 MW	2	Terra
24 July at 16:52	36 MW	1	Aqua
24 July at 14:57	34 MW	3	N21
24 July at 14:12	225 MW	4	N20
24 July at 13:51	323 MW	8	N
24 July at 13:19	396 MW	7	N21
24 July at 04:28	16 MW	10	N20
24 July at 04:11	16 MW	7	N
24 July at 03:34	42 MW	19	N21
24 July at 02:48	51 MW	16	N20
24 July at 02:28	77 MW	22	N
23 July at 20:58	1,086 MW	14	Terra
23 July at 16:14	174 MW	4	Aqua
23 July at 15:16	77 MW	8	N21
23 July at 14:29	226 MW	16	N20
23 July at 14:12	164 MW	15	N
23 July at 13:36	71 MW	7	N21
23 July at 04:28	11 MW	6	N
23 July at 03:52	20 MW	7	N21
23 July at 03:07	26 MW	12	N20
23 July at 02:48	16 MW	5	N
23 July at 02:11	17 MW	4	N21
22 July at 21:55	13 MW	2	Terra
22 July at 15:38	261 MW	4	Aqua
22 July at 14:49	101 MW	11	N20
22 July at 14:29	178 MW	15	N
22 July at 13:55	279 MW	13	N21
22 July at 13:10	192 MW	10	N20
22 July at 10:50	94 MW	5	Terra
22 July at 04:45	47 MW	8	N
22 July at 04:32	615 MW	6	Aqua
22 July at 04:13	53 MW	13	N21
22 July at 03:26	218 MW	28	N20
22 July at 03:07	227 MW	22	N
22 July at 02:33	242 MW	25	N21
21 July at 21:17	177 MW	6	Terra
21 July at 16:37	104 MW	5	Aqua
21 July at 14:14	22 MW	2	N21
21 July at 13:10	40 MW	2	N
21 July at 05:32	29 MW	2	Aqua
21 July at 04:30	16 MW	4	N21
21 July at 03:43	57 MW	13	N20
21 July at 03:26	48 MW	12	N
21 July at 02:50	61 MW	10	N21
20 July at 15:59	22 MW	1	Aqua
20 July at 15:08	28 MW	3	N
20 July at 14:32	21 MW	2	N21
20 July at 13:47	95 MW	7	N20
20 July at 13:28	11 MW	1	N
20 July at 04:53	26 MW	1	Aqua
20 July at 04:04	19 MW	3	N20
20 July at 03:43	73 MW	7	N
20 July at 03:07	71 MW	8	N21
20 July at 02:22	25 MW	8	N20
19 July at 21:36	10 MW	2	Terra
19 July at 14:53	26 MW	3	N21
19 July at 14:06	23 MW	3	N20
19 July at 10:33	44 MW	3	Terra
19 July at 04:21	7 MW	3	N20
19 July at 04:04	17 MW	6	N
19 July at 03:28	61 MW	12	N21
19 July at 02:41	80 MW	11	N20
19 July at 02:22	36 MW	8	N
18 July at 14:23	18 MW	3	N20
18 July at 14:06	10 MW	1	N
18 July at 13:30	6 MW	1	N21
18 July at 04:41	3 MW	1	N20
18 July at 04:21	2 MW	3	N
18 July at 03:45	6 MW	3	N21
18 July at 03:00	10 MW	6	N20
18 July at 02:41	3 MW	4	N
17 July at 14:44	6 MW	1	N20
17 July at 14:23	5 MW	2	N
17 July at 13:47	6 MW	1	N21
17 July at 10:52	12 MW	1	Terra
17 July at 04:06	4 MW	3	N21
17 July at 03:20	5 MW	2	N20
17 July at 03:00	6 MW	3	N
17 July at 02:24	9 MW	3	N21
16 July at 14:08	31 MW	5	N21
16 July at 13:21	13 MW	2	N20
16 July at 10:11	16 MW	1	Terra
16 July at 05:38	34 MW	3	Aqua
16 July at 04:24	14 MW	2	N21
16 July at 03:39	32 MW	2	N20
16 July at 02:43	15 MW	3	N21

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