Fire near Sava (MG)

14.28°S, 49.29°E · first detected on 27 September at 11:39

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 27 September at 11:39 to 23 October at 00:20, that is 26 days, through 351 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 5,813 ha.

Detected extent: 5,813 ha
Cumulative power: 7,156 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 277 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 351
Estimated emissions: 33.7 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 5 October 2026 to 21 October 2026. An order-of-magnitude estimate from GFAS (ECMWF, Copernicus CAMS): it also counts neighbouring fires in the same cell. Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information (2026). Published data stop on 21 October 2026.

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 pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) 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's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “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. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. 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 28 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
23 October at 00:20	2 MW	2	N21
22 October at 20:20	27 MW	1	Met9
22 October at 17:20	28 MW	1	Met9
22 October at 15:04	98 MW	2	Met9
22 October at 14:49	63 MW	1	Met9
22 October at 14:38	211 MW	8	Aqua
22 October at 14:03	64 MW	1	Met12
22 October at 13:49	130 MW	1	Met9
22 October at 13:13	39 MW	1	N21
22 October at 12:28	136 MW	18	N20
22 October at 12:11	248 MW	19	N
22 October at 11:32	118 MW	11	N21
22 October at 11:13	132 MW	2	Met12
22 October at 11:03	77 MW	1	Met12
21 October at 16:05	29 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:02	138 MW	2	Aqua
21 October at 12:47	262 MW	23	N20
21 October at 12:28	513 MW	32	N
21 October at 11:52	467 MW	17	N21
21 October at 11:23	12 MW	1	Met12
21 October at 11:13	137 MW	2	Met12
21 October at 11:04	256 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 11:03	45 MW	1	Met12
21 October at 10:53	177 MW	5	Met12
21 October at 10:43	164 MW	3	Met12
21 October at 10:34	313 MW	2	Met9
21 October at 10:33	496 MW	8	Met12
21 October at 10:23	411 MW	6	Met12
21 October at 10:19	883 MW	6	Met9
21 October at 10:13	265 MW	4	Met12
21 October at 10:04	239 MW	2	Met9
21 October at 10:03	79 MW	1	Met12
21 October at 09:53	32 MW	1	Met12
21 October at 09:43	49 MW	2	Met12
20 October at 16:05	51 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 15:34	18 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 15:19	46 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 15:04	58 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 15:01	21 MW	1	Aqua
20 October at 14:53	21 MW	1	Met12
20 October at 14:49	174 MW	5	Met9
20 October at 14:43	59 MW	2	Met12
20 October at 14:34	180 MW	4	Met9
20 October at 14:33	41 MW	1	Met12
20 October at 14:19	236 MW	4	Met9
20 October at 14:13	101 MW	2	Met12
20 October at 14:04	553 MW	7	Met9
20 October at 14:03	205 MW	3	Met12
20 October at 13:53	194 MW	3	Met12
20 October at 13:49	530 MW	6	Met9
20 October at 13:43	311 MW	4	Met12
20 October at 13:34	553 MW	7	Met9
20 October at 13:33	268 MW	4	Met12
20 October at 13:19	88 MW	2	Met9
20 October at 13:06	119 MW	7	N20
20 October at 13:04	145 MW	3	Met9
20 October at 13:03	36 MW	1	Met12
20 October at 12:53	54 MW	2	Met12
20 October at 12:49	181 MW	3	Met9
20 October at 12:45	163 MW	9	N
20 October at 12:43	140 MW	4	Met12
20 October at 12:34	142 MW	3	Met9
20 October at 12:33	134 MW	2	Met12
20 October at 12:19	209 MW	3	Met9
20 October at 12:11	30 MW	2	N21
20 October at 12:03	34 MW	1	Met12
20 October at 11:53	1,024 MW	5	Met12
20 October at 11:49	200 MW	1	Met9
20 October at 11:43	169 MW	3	Met12
19 October at 14:23	60 MW	3	Aqua
19 October at 13:06	361 MW	14	N
19 October at 12:28	280 MW	16	N21
19 October at 11:43	79 MW	11	N20
18 October at 23:55	3 MW	2	N21
18 October at 12:04	39 MW	2	N20
17 October at 00:33	2 MW	2	N21
16 October at 23:50	2 MW	3	N20
16 October at 23:29	2 MW	4	N
16 October at 14:06	99 MW	2	Aqua
16 October at 12:43	102 MW	4	N20
16 October at 12:21	45 MW	5	N
16 October at 11:43	296 MW	10	N21
16 October at 00:08	5 MW	3	N20
15 October at 23:12	1 MW	1	N21
15 October at 12:41	17 MW	3	N
15 October at 00:08	2 MW	2	N
14 October at 14:29	11 MW	1	Aqua
14 October at 13:19	48 MW	4	N20
14 October at 13:00	449 MW	15	N
14 October at 12:21	1,057 MW	18	N21
14 October at 11:37	705 MW	8	N20
13 October at 11:58	193 MW	2	N20
12 October at 11:56	60 MW	2	N
11 October at 12:34	50 MW	5	N20
11 October at 12:15	52 MW	4	N
11 October at 11:39	10 MW	2	N21
10 October at 12:34	103 MW	3	N
10 October at 11:58	37 MW	1	N21
10 October at 00:20	5 MW	5	N20
10 October at 00:01	4 MW	2	N
9 October at 14:36	175 MW	10	Aqua
9 October at 13:10	347 MW	12	N20
9 October at 12:51	422 MW	18	N
9 October at 12:15	554 MW	24	N21
9 October at 11:32	484 MW	20	N20
8 October at 13:13	15 MW	2	N
8 October at 12:34	58 MW	4	N21
8 October at 11:52	59 MW	3	N20
7 October at 12:53	66 MW	10	N21
7 October at 12:11	193 MW	7	N20
7 October at 11:49	156 MW	6	N
6 October at 12:28	72 MW	8	N20
6 October at 12:11	93 MW	14	N
6 October at 11:32	294 MW	9	N21
5 October at 23:55	11 MW	2	N20
5 October at 23:36	17 MW	2	N
5 October at 12:47	36 MW	3	N20
5 October at 12:28	18 MW	3	N
5 October at 11:52	18 MW	3	N21
4 October at 14:44	38 MW	3	Aqua
4 October at 13:06	213 MW	5	N20
4 October at 12:45	190 MW	10	N
4 October at 12:11	44 MW	2	N21
4 October at 00:14	1 MW	1	N
3 October at 13:06	9 MW	2	N
3 October at 12:28	28 MW	2	N21
3 October at 11:43	10 MW	2	N20
1 October at 12:21	12 MW	3	N20
1 October at 12:02	4 MW	1	N
30 September at 12:21	30 MW	4	N
30 September at 11:43	30 MW	1	N21
28 September at 12:21	19 MW	3	N21
27 September at 12:43	16 MW	2	N21
27 September at 11:58	32 MW	3	N20
27 September at 11:39	60 MW	4	N

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