Fire near Татар Елевци (MK)

41.54°N, 20.55°E · first detected on 3 October at 12:58

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 3 October at 12:58 to 5 October at 15:38, that is 2 days, through 70 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 448 ha.

Detected extent
448 ha
Cumulative power
646 MW
Peak power, one pixel
27 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections
70

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“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 detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent 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.

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 5 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

PassPower summed over the passDetectionsSensor
6 October at 14:252 MW1N20
6 October at 13:3012 MW2N21
6 October at 12:4511 MW2N20
6 October at 12:1811 MW1Met12
6 October at 11:5811 MW1Met12
6 October at 11:4812 MW1Met12
5 October at 15:3811 MW1Aqua
5 October at 13:4710 MW1N21
5 October at 13:0812 MW1Met12
5 October at 13:0435 MW4N20
5 October at 12:4814 MW1Met12
5 October at 12:4357 MW6N
5 October at 12:3820 MW1Met12
5 October at 12:2818 MW1Met12
5 October at 12:1813 MW1Met12
5 October at 11:2824 MW2Met12
5 October at 11:1831 MW2Met12
5 October at 11:0849 MW3Met12
5 October at 10:5830 MW2Met12
5 October at 10:4817 MW1Met12
5 October at 10:3812 MW1Met12
5 October at 10:2810 MW1Met12
5 October at 10:1812 MW1Met12
5 October at 10:0816 MW1Met12
5 October at 03:221 MW1N20
5 October at 03:021 MW1N
5 October at 02:261 MW1N21
4 October at 15:2817 MW1Met12
4 October at 14:5815 MW1Met12
4 October at 14:4424 MW3N
4 October at 14:3857 MW3Met12
4 October at 14:2820 MW1Met12
4 October at 14:1881 MW2Met12
4 October at 14:08139 MW12N21
4 October at 14:0839 MW2Met12
4 October at 13:5821 MW1Met12
4 October at 13:4854 MW3Met12
4 October at 13:3838 MW2Met12
4 October at 13:2843 MW2Met12
4 October at 13:2142 MW5N20
4 October at 13:1818 MW1Met12
4 October at 13:0821 MW1Met12
4 October at 13:0429 MW2N
4 October at 12:5816 MW1Met12
4 October at 12:4821 MW1Met12
4 October at 12:3829 MW2Met12
4 October at 12:2833 MW2Met12
4 October at 12:2631 MW3N21
4 October at 12:1837 MW2Met12
4 October at 12:0834 MW2Met12
4 October at 11:5837 MW2Met12
4 October at 11:4842 MW2Met12
4 October at 11:3858 MW2Met12
4 October at 11:2859 MW2Met12
4 October at 11:1868 MW3Met12
4 October at 11:0871 MW3Met12
4 October at 10:5846 MW3Met12
4 October at 10:4820 MW1Met12
4 October at 10:3817 MW1Met12
4 October at 10:2812 MW1Met12
4 October at 09:5216 MW2Terra
4 October at 03:4110 MW4N20
4 October at 03:207 MW4N
4 October at 02:4311 MW5N21
4 October at 02:014 MW3N20
4 October at 01:391 MW1N
3 October at 22:4146 MW1Met10
3 October at 22:3812 MW1Met12
3 October at 22:2838 MW2Met12
3 October at 22:2665 MW1Met10
3 October at 22:1873 MW2Met12
3 October at 22:11102 MW2Met10
3 October at 21:5821 MW2Met12
3 October at 21:5645 MW1Met10
3 October at 21:3833 MW2Met12
3 October at 21:2819 MW1Met12
3 October at 21:2652 MW1Met10
3 October at 21:1819 MW1Met12
3 October at 21:1156 MW1Met10
3 October at 21:0850 MW3Met12
3 October at 20:5839 MW1Met12
3 October at 20:56115 MW2Met10
3 October at 20:4882 MW2Met12
3 October at 20:4164 MW1Met10
3 October at 20:2829 MW2Met12
3 October at 20:1823 MW2Met12
3 October at 20:1147 MW1Met10
3 October at 20:0852 MW3Met12
3 October at 19:5822 MW1Met12
3 October at 19:4819 MW1Met12
3 October at 19:4049 MW1Met10
3 October at 19:3835 MW2Met12
3 October at 19:2843 MW2Met12
3 October at 19:2552 MW1Met10
3 October at 19:1843 MW2Met12
3 October at 19:1053 MW1Met10
3 October at 18:5813 MW1Met12
3 October at 18:5551 MW1Met10
3 October at 18:4873 MW4Met12
3 October at 18:4048 MW1Met10
3 October at 18:3862 MW4Met12
3 October at 18:2862 MW3Met12
3 October at 18:2547 MW1Met10
3 October at 18:1888 MW4Met12
3 October at 18:1056 MW1Met10
3 October at 18:0877 MW4Met12
3 October at 17:58101 MW4Met12
3 October at 17:5570 MW1Met10
3 October at 17:4846 MW2Met12
3 October at 17:4069 MW1Met10
3 October at 17:3886 MW4Met12
3 October at 17:28122 MW4Met12
3 October at 17:25130 MW2Met10
3 October at 17:18100 MW3Met12
3 October at 17:10128 MW2Met10
3 October at 17:08139 MW4Met12
3 October at 16:58178 MW4Met12
3 October at 16:5592 MW1Met10
3 October at 16:48117 MW4Met12
3 October at 16:3860 MW4Met12
3 October at 16:2834 MW2Met12
3 October at 16:1847 MW2Met12
3 October at 16:0866 MW4Met12
3 October at 15:5855 MW3Met12
3 October at 15:4818 MW1Met12
3 October at 15:3873 MW3Met12
3 October at 15:2833 MW2Met12
3 October at 15:1847 MW2Met12
3 October at 15:0836 MW2Met12
3 October at 14:5854 MW2Met12
3 October at 14:4825 MW1Met12
3 October at 14:3837 MW2Met12
3 October at 14:2841 MW2Met12
3 October at 14:25122 MW6N21
3 October at 14:1853 MW2Met12
3 October at 14:0834 MW2Met12
3 October at 13:5821 MW1Met12
3 October at 13:4832 MW2Met12
3 October at 13:4280 MW4N20
3 October at 13:3847 MW2Met12
3 October at 13:2116 MW1N
3 October at 12:5833 MW1Met12

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