Varnavas
General information
- Category
- Wildfire
- Fire classification
- Convective plume
- Country
- Greece
- Year
- 2024
The Varnavas fire had a high intensity behaviour from its start, with moderate northerly winds providing its propagation. It was predominantly plume driven, although wet pyroconvective phenomena (overshooting PyroCu) were occasionally observed.
Fire behaviour and surface observations
| Start location lat | 38.237959 deg N |
| Start location lon | 23.924421 deg E |
| Start location name | Varnavas, Greece |
| Start hour | 11/08/2024 12:02:00 (UTC) |
| Surface affected | 10414 ha |
| Fire behavior | Surface, high intensity |
| Torching head | % |
| Torching flanks | % |
| Flame length mean head | m |
| Flame length max head | m |
| Flame length mean flanks | m |
| Flame length max flanks | m |
| Spotting mean | m |
| Spotting max | m |
| Rate of spread mean | 1500 m/h |
| Rate of spread max | 4500 m/h |
| Burn ratio mean | 450 ha/h |
| Burn ratio max | 2750 ha/h |