Fire near Fornos do Pinhal (PT)

41.67°N, 7.23°W · first detected on 28 July at 16:18

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 28 July at 16:18 to 2 August at 05:02, that is 5 days, through 1,534 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 13,675 ha.

Detected extent: 13,675 ha
Cumulative power: 52,882 MW
Peak power: 1,811 MW
Detections: 1,534

“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 Fornos do Pinhal (PT), 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.

The spread, pass after pass

Fornos do Pinhal (PT) seen by Sentinel-2 on 27 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

Fornos do Pinhal (PT) seen by Sentinel-2 on 29 July — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

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 18:10	53 MW	1	Met10
14 August at 17:55	51 MW	1	Met10
14 August at 12:40	104 MW	1	Met10
13 August at 17:40	54 MW	1	Met10
2 August at 05:02	6 MW	4	N20
2 August at 04:41	5 MW	3	N
2 August at 04:06	8 MW	3	N21
1 August at 23:29	455 MW	4	Terra
1 August at 21:51	39 MW	1	Terra
1 August at 16:25	23 MW	7	N
1 August at 15:48	84 MW	10	N21
1 August at 15:01	59 MW	4	N20
1 August at 14:44	5 MW	2	N
1 August at 14:08	8 MW	1	N21
1 August at 05:19	51 MW	6	N20
1 August at 05:02	167 MW	8	N
1 August at 04:26	37 MW	8	N21
1 August at 03:41	5 MW	5	N20
31 July at 22:51	243 MW	9	Terra
31 July at 18:03	321 MW	2	Aqua
31 July at 16:44	131 MW	13	N
31 July at 16:08	273 MW	20	N21
31 July at 15:23	141 MW	10	N20
31 July at 15:01	119 MW	10	N
31 July at 14:27	100 MW	11	N21
31 July at 11:47	76 MW	4	Terra
31 July at 06:59	74 MW	3	Aqua
31 July at 05:38	66 MW	34	N20
31 July at 05:19	143 MW	45	N
31 July at 04:43	273 MW	86	N21
31 July at 03:58	353 MW	97	N20
31 July at 03:39	241 MW	86	N
30 July at 22:12	398 MW	2	Terra
30 July at 17:24	2,152 MW	12	Aqua
30 July at 16:27	2,759 MW	64	N21
30 July at 15:40	6,703 MW	69	N20
30 July at 15:23	4,898 MW	48	N
30 July at 14:46	3,350 MW	35	N21
30 July at 11:09	73 MW	2	Terra
30 July at 05:38	86 MW	29	N
30 July at 05:02	271 MW	59	N21
30 July at 04:17	525 MW	90	N20
30 July at 03:58	441 MW	79	N
30 July at 03:22	362 MW	59	N21
29 July at 18:24	3,506 MW	5	Aqua
29 July at 16:46	5,971 MW	18	Aqua
29 July at 15:59	6,028 MW	64	N20
29 July at 15:40	3,471 MW	62	N
29 July at 15:04	2,997 MW	32	N21
29 July at 14:19	851 MW	25	N20
29 July at 12:06	57 MW	2	Terra
29 July at 07:21	89 MW	2	Aqua
29 July at 05:42	263 MW	4	Aqua
29 July at 05:21	118 MW	35	N21
29 July at 04:36	368 MW	66	N20
29 July at 04:15	418 MW	61	N
29 July at 03:41	642 MW	82	N21
28 July at 22:32	1,360 MW	22	Terra
28 July at 17:46	1,026 MW	5	Aqua
28 July at 16:18	197 MW	5	N20

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