Wildfire near Monchique
22 873 hectares burned near Monchique, 4 km away — Portimão is 19 km away, Portugal. The fire burned between August 3, 2018 and August 10, 2018. On Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 14-meter resolution — roads and even houses are visible at this scale.
🛰 Megnézem a felvételeket ▼Before and after
Drag the slider or click anywhere on the image. Arrow keys work too. Any two dates can be compared — pick below which one to show on the left and which on the right.
The whole period, image by image
13 cloud-free Sentinel-2 images between July 19, 2018 and October 17, 2018. The orange outline is the burned area measured by Copernicus EMS.
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Before/after sliders and day-by-day Sentinel-2 replays.
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What does this image series show?
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite pair passes over the same area every two to three days, capturing the surface at a native 10-meter pixel size. This crop is 29 km wide, so we sized it to 14-meter pixels — the 22,873-hectare burn scar fits in one view and the detail survives.
The before/after slider shows a difference that took only days to appear. On the fresher images the fire may still be actively burning — smoke partly covers the scar, and the direction of the plume shows the wind.
Why is this better than the daily satellite map? The daily NASA layers on the main map are 250-meter composites: excellent at showing where and when fire burned, but not the detail. Sentinel-2 is far sharper — the trade-off is a revisit only every 2–3 days, and only cloud-free passes are usable.
- 22,873 hectares = 229 km² burned area
- First detection: August 3, 2018
- Last detection: August 10, 2018
- Location: 37.308°, -8.514° — near Monchique, Portugal
- Imagery: 13 Sentinel-2 acquisitions, 2018-07-19 – 2018-10-17
Data, reuse and liability
Satellite imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026, via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Burned-area outline and size from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service / EFFIS-GWIS (CC BY 4.0). Hotspot detections: NASA MODIS and VIIRS.
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