Fire near Saint-Estève
42.70°N, 2.90°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 detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.
Timeline
Extinguished35 hastarted on 3 September at 15:38 · extinguished on 22 September at 18:40
- Presumed over22 September at 18:40
No further news, a day of silence for an active fire, four for a contained one, and no recent satellite detection nearby: the register closed the entry on its own. This is a presumption, not an announcement, and a new report would reopen it.
- Area revised to 35 ha21 September at 16:56
Incendie à Perpignan : 35 hectares parcourus, plus de 180 pompiers mobilisés · mesinfos
- Flare-up21 September at 15:42
Pyrénées-Orientales : un « feu de broussailles important » à Perpignan, l’autoroute A9 coupée · Le Parisien
- Presumed over15 September at 19:20
No further news, a day of silence for an active fire, four for a contained one, and no recent satellite detection nearby: the register closed the entry on its own. This is a presumption, not an announcement, and a new report would reopen it.
- Flare-up14 September at 19:11
- Presumed over12 September at 17:00
No further news, a day of silence for an active fire, four for a contained one, and no recent satellite detection nearby: the register closed the entry on its own. This is a presumption, not an announcement, and a new report would reopen it.
- Flare-up11 September at 16:57
Hélicoptère, avions et 100 pompiers mobilisés : un incendie se déclare au bord d'une route fréquentée près de Perpignan · actu.fr Occitanie
- Presumed over4 September at 15:40
No further news, a day of silence for an active fire, four for a contained one, and no recent satellite detection nearby: the register closed the entry on its own. This is a presumption, not an announcement, and a new report would reopen it.
- First report3 September at 15:38
Trois incendies en cours dans les Pyrénées-Orientales : les sapeurs-pompiers déploient un gros dispositif · actu.fr Occitanie
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.
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 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 summed over the pass | Detections | Sensor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September at 14:25 | 2 MW | 1 | N20 |
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