Fire near Uncastillo (ES)

42.33°N, 1.11°W · first detected on 15 July at 11:11

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 15 July at 11:11 to 18 July at 16:05, that is 3 days, through 1,288 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 19,187 ha.

Detected extent: 19,187 ha
Cumulative power: 40,126 MW
Peak power: 1,537 MW
Detections: 1,288

“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 Uncastillo (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
14 August at 15:25	141 MW	1	Met10
13 August at 16:40	118 MW	1	Met10
13 August at 15:55	184 MW	1	Met9
13 August at 15:40	190 MW	1	Met9
13 August at 15:25	192 MW	1	Met9
13 August at 14:55	200 MW	1	Met9
13 August at 14:40	403 MW	2	Met9
13 August at 14:25	412 MW	2	Met9
13 August at 14:10	211 MW	1	Met9
13 August at 09:55	251 MW	3	Met9
13 August at 09:40	167 MW	2	Met9
12 August at 16:10	177 MW	1	Met9
12 August at 15:25	381 MW	2	Met9
12 August at 15:10	392 MW	2	Met9
12 August at 14:55	208 MW	1	Met9
12 August at 14:40	215 MW	1	Met9
12 August at 14:25	212 MW	1	Met9
12 August at 14:10	221 MW	1	Met9
12 August at 13:10	133 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 12:55	126 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 12:40	122 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 12:25	115 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 12:10	106 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 11:55	96 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 11:40	91 MW	1	Met10
12 August at 11:25	85 MW	1	Met10
18 July at 16:05	7 MW	1	N20
18 July at 15:46	10 MW	1	N
18 July at 15:10	65 MW	6	N21
18 July at 14:23	134 MW	9	N20
18 July at 14:06	89 MW	8	N
18 July at 11:32	137 MW	3	Terra
18 July at 05:17	38 MW	1	Aqua
18 July at 04:43	230 MW	55	N20
18 July at 04:21	314 MW	73	N
18 July at 03:45	394 MW	73	N21
18 July at 03:00	347 MW	68	N20
17 July at 21:57	1,137 MW	25	Terra
17 July at 17:20	2,410 MW	24	Aqua
17 July at 16:05	1,092 MW	41	N
17 July at 15:29	1,247 MW	28	N21
17 July at 14:44	1,836 MW	21	N20
17 July at 14:23	1,678 MW	26	N
17 July at 13:49	1,437 MW	19	N21
17 July at 06:17	110 MW	9	Aqua
17 July at 05:00	179 MW	61	N20
17 July at 04:43	229 MW	79	N
17 July at 04:06	322 MW	93	N21
17 July at 03:20	297 MW	112	N20
17 July at 03:00	331 MW	76	N
16 July at 22:55	3,244 MW	30	Terra
16 July at 16:44	7,540 MW	21	Aqua
16 July at 15:48	3,843 MW	61	N21
16 July at 15:01	1,106 MW	33	N20
16 July at 14:08	2,875 MW	59	N21
16 July at 11:49	869 MW	7	Terra
16 July at 04:24	135 MW	33	N21
16 July at 03:39	91 MW	40	N20

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