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Satellite

Where the measurements are

Drawn server-side from the public event read model. Every mark is a measurement: nothing here is interpolated, smoothed or inferred.

16.1°16.2°16.3°16.4°16.5°16.6°39.8°39.9°modelled track · NOAA20 · 13:01 UTC10 kmCivitaCerchiara di CalabriaFrancavilla MarittimaCassano All'IonioSan Lorenzo Bellizzi

What each mark means

Footprint at this scaleVIIRS (NASA) 375 mMeteosat (EUMETSAT) ≈2 km · not drawn

  • VIIRS (NASA)375 m

    Measured positions. Drawn at true footprint scale, brightest layer.

  • Meteosat (EUMETSAT)≈2 km2 hr ago

    Measures how much energy the fire radiates, which is what sizes the glow. Its individual pixel positions are not stored, so no Meteosat footprint is drawn — inferring one from the sharper layer would put a fire pixel on ground nobody measured.

  • True geographic scale, corrected for latitude. Frame is about 48 km across.
  • The glow means “an event, roughly here”. Its area follows the measured power and its radius is capped, because an uncapped one would assert a burnt extent nobody measured. The number carries the magnitude.
  • Grey is what a later pass has superseded. Colour means the most recent sharp measurement, and it never fades with the clock — only newer knowledge demotes it.
  • Coastline, lakes and borders come from a generalised map with about 1,7 km between vertices, so treat every line as the shape of the geography and not as a surveyed boundary. It is drawn under the data and never over it.
  • Place names sit at their own coordinates from an offline index of populated places. They say what is near the measurements — not that any named place is burning, and not how far the fire reaches.
  • The dashed line is a modelled satellite ground track through the pass that produced the coloured detections — real published orbital parameters, measured pass time, modelled geometry. The swath is 3060 km wide, so where the satellite actually looked from inside it is unknown.

Satellite

Current facts

No satellite detection does not mean an area is safe. Cloud, sensor timing and heat below a sensor’s threshold can hide activity.

First seen01/08/2026, 12:00 UTC
Last observation01/08/2026, 14:00 UTC
Observed stateMeasurable thermal activity
Like-for-like trendNot enough comparable observations
Latest measured power21,9 MW · Meteosat
OfficialNo official source is linked to this event yet.

MTG · VIIRS · Official

Verification ladder

  • SeenObserved

    A satellite observed a thermal anomaly here. Repetition belongs at this step: seeing the same thing many times separates noise from signal, but it does not separate heat from bright ground. Observed by: Meteosat (EUMETSAT).

  • ConfirmedObserved

    The anomaly carries measured energy or a 375 m position — the calibrated Meteosat fire product, or a VIIRS detection. Persistence alone never lights this step, because sunlit dry ground is persistent by nature.

  • Quantified by VIIRSNot yet observed

    VIIRS (NASA) passed overhead and measured radiated power at a 375 m footprint. Between passes it says nothing.

  • Linked to an official sourceNot yet observed

    An official update has been matched to this event. Official information outranks everything above it.

Official

Official source record

Official information is shown separately and takes precedence over satellite interpretation.

No official source is linked to this event yet.

When each sensor looked

Meteosat looks every ten minutes; VIIRS passes a few times a day. The contrast is the point — between sharp passes there is no new sharp knowledge, only the ten-minute layer.

Meteosat (EUMETSAT)VIIRS (NASA)no observations on this rail08-01 12:00 UTC08-01 14:00 UTC · 2 hr ago

VIIRS · Meteosat

Observation history

Day and night observations stay labelled. REYKR does not compare unlike times of day.

  1. Meteosat1 detections · average 21,9 MW · peak 21,9 MWDay
  2. Meteosat1 detections · average 18,2 MW · peak 18,2 MWDay
  3. Meteosat1 detections · average 22,3 MW · peak 22,3 MWDay
  4. Meteosat1 detections · average 27,4 MW · peak 27,4 MWDay
  5. Meteosat3 detections · average 47,4 MW · peak 70,9 MWDay
  6. Meteosat2 detections · average 47,3 MW · peak 56,7 MWDay
  7. Meteosat3 detections · average 34,9 MW · peak 58,5 MWDay
  8. Meteosat3 detections · average 33,4 MW · peak 50,7 MWDay
  9. Meteosat2 detections · average 92,8 MW · peak 95,6 MWDay
  10. Meteosat5 detections · average 50,7 MW · peak 85,2 MWDay
  11. Meteosat2 detections · average 54,5 MW · peak 75,9 MWDay
  12. Meteosat1 detections · average 56,2 MW · peak 56,2 MWDay

Nearby

Other fires nearby

Other satellite-observed events within 100 km, nearest first — up to six shown.

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  • Calabria

    16 km away

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  • Calabria

    21 km away

    No measurable activity in recent satellite observations
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  • Calabria

    21 km away

    No measurable activity in recent satellite observations
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  • Calabria

    24 km away

    No measurable activity in recent satellite observations
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  • Calabria

    39 km away

    Measurable thermal activity
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  • Calabria

    39 km away

    No measurable activity in recent satellite observations
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