Fire near El Barraco (ES)

40.36°N, 4.55°W · first detected on 22 July at 15:36

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 22 July at 15:36 to 1 August at 17:01, that is 10 days, through 11,072 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 73,523 ha.

Detected extent: 73,523 ha
Cumulative power: 396,315 MW
Peak power: 1,899 MW
Detections: 11,072

“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.

The detected extent

Outline of the burned area near El Barraco (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
12 August at 05:15	1 MW	1	N20
9 August at 15:53	22 MW	2	N20
9 August at 15:33	33 MW	2	N
7 August at 14:49	3 MW	1	N20
1 August at 17:01	105 MW	4	Aqua
1 August at 16:25	166 MW	8	N
1 August at 15:48	433 MW	3	N21
31 July at 18:03	31 MW	1	Aqua
31 July at 16:08	61 MW	2	N21
31 July at 15:23	141 MW	2	N20
31 July at 14:25	4 MW	1	N21
30 July at 04:17	1 MW	1	N20
30 July at 03:58	0 MW	1	N
29 July at 15:57	30 MW	1	N20
28 July at 17:44	147 MW	1	Aqua
28 July at 14:17	12 MW	2	N
28 July at 06:42	30 MW	2	Aqua
28 July at 04:56	22 MW	10	N20
28 July at 04:36	27 MW	21	N
28 July at 04:00	36 MW	24	N21
28 July at 03:13	29 MW	12	N20
27 July at 21:53	288 MW	7	Terra
27 July at 17:08	5,334 MW	35	Aqua
27 July at 16:18	3,523 MW	81	N
27 July at 15:42	3,064 MW	71	N21
27 July at 14:55	3,536 MW	58	N20
27 July at 14:38	3,207 MW	109	N
27 July at 14:02	3,540 MW	51	N21
27 July at 10:50	311 MW	4	Terra
27 July at 06:04	824 MW	32	Aqua
27 July at 05:15	714 MW	133	N20
27 July at 04:53	931 MW	159	N
27 July at 04:19	1,223 MW	190	N21
27 July at 03:34	962 MW	167	N20
27 July at 03:13	584 MW	89	N
26 July at 22:51	2,541 MW	48	Terra
26 July at 18:07	1,797 MW	12	Aqua
26 July at 16:35	256 MW	22	N
26 July at 16:29	3,441 MW	13	Aqua
26 July at 15:59	3,408 MW	131	N21
26 July at 15:14	3,231 MW	121	N20
26 July at 14:55	3,124 MW	143	N
26 July at 14:19	3,233 MW	128	N21
26 July at 11:49	676 MW	18	Terra
26 July at 07:04	2,889 MW	15	Aqua
26 July at 05:32	1,176 MW	178	N20
26 July at 05:28	1,431 MW	9	Aqua
26 July at 05:13	2,481 MW	426	N
26 July at 04:38	6,302 MW	514	N21
26 July at 03:52	6,811 MW	711	N20
26 July at 03:34	5,745 MW	660	N
25 July at 22:14	15,173 MW	108	Terra
25 July at 17:29	10,535 MW	64	Aqua
25 July at 16:20	11,524 MW	180	N21
25 July at 15:33	11,358 MW	235	N20
25 July at 15:14	9,747 MW	177	N
25 July at 14:39	5,007 MW	139	N21
25 July at 11:09	6,662 MW	36	Terra
25 July at 06:27	4,695 MW	60	Aqua
25 July at 05:32	1,988 MW	236	N
25 July at 04:56	4,000 MW	488	N21
25 July at 04:11	3,904 MW	590	N20
25 July at 03:52	3,719 MW	513	N
25 July at 03:15	4,143 MW	410	N21
24 July at 23:12	8,876 MW	77	Terra
24 July at 16:52	20,842 MW	75	Aqua
24 July at 15:53	27,154 MW	282	N20
24 July at 15:33	17,265 MW	281	N
24 July at 14:57	15,258 MW	191	N21
24 July at 14:12	7,451 MW	167	N20
24 July at 12:09	8,707 MW	30	Terra
24 July at 05:49	4,577 MW	44	Aqua
24 July at 05:15	1,888 MW	144	N21
24 July at 04:30	2,874 MW	303	N20
24 July at 04:11	3,391 MW	335	N
24 July at 03:34	3,606 MW	206	N21
23 July at 22:34	8,048 MW	141	Terra
23 July at 17:52	19,960 MW	44	Aqua
23 July at 16:12	18,707 MW	196	N20
23 July at 15:53	12,425 MW	161	N
23 July at 15:16	11,502 MW	120	N21
23 July at 14:32	2,190 MW	100	N20
23 July at 14:12	3,630 MW	59	N
23 July at 11:30	3,154 MW	22	Terra
23 July at 06:49	1,847 MW	22	Aqua
23 July at 04:47	2,076 MW	64	N20
23 July at 04:30	2,035 MW	85	N
23 July at 03:54	2,418 MW	79	N21
23 July at 03:07	1,678 MW	50	N20
22 July at 21:55	1,451 MW	11	Terra
22 July at 17:14	4,755 MW	15	Aqua
22 July at 16:29	834 MW	4	N20
22 July at 16:12	5,201 MW	72	N
22 July at 15:36	2,205 MW	25	N21
16 July at 15:01	13 MW	1	N20
16 July at 14:08	16 MW	1	N21

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