Balkan Forest Fires
8 August 2007
Thelatest EFFIS Fire Dangerforecast still shows reasonable fire risk for the Balkan coastal region:
Albania
Forest fires continue to burn in the north and northwest of the country. Arequest for international assistence is still active.
see also
This map illustrates satellite-detected fire locations over the affected areas of Albania. These site locations represent all active fires as detected by the MODIS Aqua and Terra satellites between the dates of 1 to 31 July 2007. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field.
Map Scale for A2: 1:650,000
Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
Datum: WGS 1984
Source(s):
Fire Data: MODIS Terra & Aqua (NASA)
Data Processing: NASA, UNM
Fire Dates: 1-31 July 2007
Forest Data: MODIS (1km) 2004
GIS Data: USGS, NGA, ESRI, EEA, UNOSAT
Elevation Data: SRTM (90m) – NASA
Map Production: UNOSAT (3 August 2007)
Croatia
Strong winds fueled the fires around Dubrovnik in the night of 7August 2007. A huge fire approached the neighbouring country of Bosnia andHerzegovina. About 500 firefighters werew working on a 15 km fire front. Becausethe winds were decreasing it was possible to use aircraft for fire suppressionagain.
The fires around Dubrovnik could be brought under control.However, several villages have been cut from power and water supply. Meanwhilean area of 3 000 ha has been burnt.
However, a calculation of the McArthur FDI based onthe following weather forecast for Thursday (55, yellow) and Friday (51, yellow)shows that firefighters may be able to contain most blazes in the coming daysaround Dubrovnik, Croatia:
see also:
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Croats help crews fight a wildfire (published by www.philly.com, 7 August 2007)
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Dubrovnik escapes Croatian forest fire (published by www.msnbc.msn.com, 6 August 2007)
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Bushfire Near Batvaci In Istria (published by www.javno.com, 6 August 2007)
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6 injured in Dubrovnik forest fire (published by www.mrt.com.mk, 6 August 2007)
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Dubrovnik threatened by forest fire (published by www.bbc.co.uk, 6 August 2007)
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Croatia wild fire nears Dubrovnik (published by www.cnn.com, 6 August 2007)
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Tourists stranded as fire rages near Croatian city (published by www.cbc.ca, 5 August 2007)
Macedonia
The fire situation in Macedonia has improved significantly, sono more international assistance is required.
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Forest fires in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1): EADRCC situation report no. 6 (PDF, 26 KB)
This map illustrates satellite-detected fire locations over the affected areas of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These site locations represent all active fires as detected by the MODIS Aqua and Terra satellites between the dates of 1 to 31 July 2007. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field.
Map Scale for A2: 1:500,000
Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
Datum: (WGS 1984)
Source(s):
Fire Data: MODIS Terra & Aqua (NASA)
Data Processing: NASA, UNM, FAO
Fire Dates : 1-31 July 2007
Forest Data : MODIS 2004
GIS Data : USGS, NGA, ESRI, UNOSAT
Elevation Data: SRTM (90m) – NASA
Map Production : UNOSAT (3 August 2007)
Fordocumentation of the fires in the Balkan region and neighbouring South Europeancountries see:
Seealso the GFMC Media page:
