Fire near Rilja (BA)

43.28°N, 18.33°E · first detected on 9 August at 20:32

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 9 August at 20:32 to 14 August at 20:30, that is 5 days, through 116 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 1,016 ha.

Detected extent: 1,016 ha
Cumulative power: 600 MW
Peak power: 33 MW
Detections: 116

“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
14 August at 20:30	11 MW	1	Terra
14 August at 19:38	12 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 19:18	27 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 19:08	23 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 18:58	26 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 18:48	28 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 18:38	30 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 18:18	13 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 18:08	11 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 17:58	23 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 17:48	30 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 17:38	28 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 17:28	28 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 17:18	35 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 17:08	29 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 16:58	36 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 16:48	34 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 16:38	36 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 16:28	16 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 16:18	36 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 16:08	27 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 15:58	21 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 15:48	31 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 15:38	28 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 15:28	36 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 15:27	33 MW	1	Aqua
14 August at 15:18	36 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 15:08	19 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 14:58	16 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 14:48	15 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 14:38	30 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 14:28	17 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 14:17	37 MW	4	N20
14 August at 14:08	13 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 14:00	36 MW	5	N
14 August at 13:58	13 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 13:48	16 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 13:38	30 MW	2	Met12
14 August at 13:28	16 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 13:23	28 MW	4	N21
14 August at 13:18	12 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 13:08	13 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 12:58	16 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 12:48	14 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 12:38	13 MW	3	N20
14 August at 12:18	12 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 12:08	12 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 11:58	11 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 11:48	13 MW	1	Met12
14 August at 04:15	25 MW	6	N
14 August at 03:39	37 MW	11	N21
14 August at 02:54	15 MW	5	N20
14 August at 02:37	12 MW	6	N
14 August at 02:01	5 MW	4	N21
12 August at 13:15	3 MW	1	N20
11 August at 03:32	2 MW	2	N
11 August at 02:56	1 MW	1	N21
11 August at 02:09	10 MW	6	N20
11 August at 01:52	4 MW	4	N
10 August at 21:10	13 MW	2	Terra
10 August at 16:12	11 MW	1	Aqua
10 August at 14:40	42 MW	5	N21
10 August at 13:53	62 MW	5	N20
10 August at 13:34	45 MW	5	N
10 August at 12:58	65 MW	5	N21
10 August at 10:07	30 MW	2	Terra
10 August at 03:49	2 MW	2	N
10 August at 03:13	5 MW	4	N21
10 August at 02:30	7 MW	5	N20
10 August at 02:09	11 MW	11	N
10 August at 01:33	9 MW	3	N21
9 August at 20:32	26 MW	2	Terra

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