Fire near Saint-Just

47.76°N, 1.99°W · first detected on 12 August at 14:38

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 12 August at 14:38 to 13 August at 16:29, through 56 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 1,097 ha.

Detected extent: 1,097 ha
Cumulative power: 1,552 MW
Peak power: 216 MW
Detections: 56

“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 Saint-Just, 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
13 August at 19:38	11 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 19:18	24 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 19:08	14 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 18:58	20 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 18:48	27 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 18:38	11 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 18:18	11 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 18:08	26 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 17:58	22 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 17:48	23 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 17:41	50 MW	1	Met10
13 August at 17:08	25 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 16:58	12 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 16:48	15 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 16:38	21 MW	1	Met12
13 August at 16:29	65 MW	1	Aqua
13 August at 16:28	55 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 16:20	62 MW	2	N20
13 August at 16:18	107 MW	4	Met12
13 August at 16:08	92 MW	3	Met12
13 August at 16:01	83 MW	6	N
13 August at 15:58	80 MW	4	Met12
13 August at 15:48	60 MW	3	Met12
13 August at 15:38	57 MW	3	Met12
13 August at 15:28	42 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 15:25	122 MW	6	N21
13 August at 15:18	81 MW	5	Met12
13 August at 15:08	160 MW	8	Met12
13 August at 14:58	107 MW	5	Met12
13 August at 14:48	253 MW	7	Met12
13 August at 14:40	36 MW	2	N20
13 August at 14:38	54 MW	3	Met12
13 August at 14:28	124 MW	5	Met12
13 August at 14:19	23 MW	2	N
13 August at 14:18	26 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 14:08	38 MW	2	Met12
13 August at 13:45	6 MW	2	N21
13 August at 04:53	3 MW	1	N20
13 August at 04:34	6 MW	3	N
13 August at 03:58	12 MW	4	N21
13 August at 03:11	7 MW	3	N20
12 August at 23:08	28 MW	2	Met12
12 August at 22:58	15 MW	1	Met12
12 August at 22:48	40 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 22:38	55 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 22:29	184 MW	7	Terra
12 August at 22:28	60 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 22:26	45 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 22:18	62 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 22:11	62 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 22:08	32 MW	1	Met12
12 August at 21:58	59 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 21:56	132 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 21:48	141 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 21:41	196 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 21:38	287 MW	7	Met12
12 August at 21:28	180 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 21:26	236 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 21:18	229 MW	7	Met12
12 August at 21:11	259 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 21:08	256 MW	7	Met12
12 August at 20:58	302 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 20:56	252 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 20:48	519 MW	8	Met12
12 August at 20:41	229 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 20:38	181 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 20:28	406 MW	8	Met12
12 August at 20:26	283 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 20:18	141 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 20:11	405 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 20:08	417 MW	8	Met12
12 August at 19:58	420 MW	8	Met12
12 August at 19:56	209 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 19:48	215 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 19:41	180 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 19:38	317 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 19:28	358 MW	7	Met12
12 August at 19:26	254 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 19:18	364 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 19:11	332 MW	3	Met10
12 August at 19:08	259 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 18:58	426 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 18:56	340 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 18:48	335 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 18:41	343 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 18:38	426 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 18:28	413 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 18:26	408 MW	2	Met10
12 August at 18:18	237 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 18:08	303 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 17:58	351 MW	5	Met12
12 August at 17:48	399 MW	5	Met12
12 August at 17:38	186 MW	2	Met12
12 August at 17:29	242 MW	2	Aqua
12 August at 17:28	292 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 17:18	743 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 17:08	851 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 16:58	930 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 16:48	511 MW	5	Met12
12 August at 16:38	573 MW	5	Met12
12 August at 16:28	162 MW	2	Met12
12 August at 16:20	290 MW	5	N
12 August at 16:18	369 MW	2	Met12
12 August at 16:08	820 MW	6	Met12
12 August at 15:58	618 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 15:48	27 MW	1	Met12
12 August at 15:44	259 MW	6	N21
12 August at 15:28	151 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 15:18	115 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 15:08	76 MW	3	Met12
12 August at 14:58	32 MW	1	Met12
12 August at 14:57	120 MW	3	N20
12 August at 14:48	77 MW	4	Met12
12 August at 14:40	33 MW	1	N
12 August at 14:38	15 MW	1	Met12

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