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Antratsyt fire, 7 July 2022 Антрацитівський район · Antratsyt

Out · last detection 16 Jul 2022, 10:45 UTC

The fire started on 7 July 2022 in Antratsyt, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,911 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 31th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 15 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

The power measured by the satellite is low (29.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
1,911ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
10days
7 Jul 2022 – 16 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
7 Jul
2022
Heat detections
40
in a single hotspot: 30 MW
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
61MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jul16 Jul
16 Jul 2022

How it evolved, day by day

7 Jul 2022 · 112 MW · 5 8 Jul 2022 · 12 MW · 6 9 Jul 2022 · 25 MW · 4 14 Jul 2022 · 57 MW · 5 15 Jul 2022 · 141 MW · 18 16 Jul 2022 · 18 MW · 2
7 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul 14 Jul 15 Jul 16 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

33°high
50km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.5 mm on 22 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.2% of the area of London (19 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Antratsyt Антрацитівський район 30,070 inhabitants · 23.3 km from the centre where it started
    1,905 ha reached on 7 Jul
    0.8 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land74 %
  • Agricultural areas20 %
  • Mixed forest5.6 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
7 Jul 31.1 °C 22 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
8 Jul 31.7 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
9 Jul 32.8 °C 23 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
10 Jul 33.0 °C 24 % 50 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 63
11 Jul 25.6 °C 61 % 50 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 5
12 Jul 27.8 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
13 Jul 29.0 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
14 Jul 25.0 °C 40 % 50 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 44
15 Jul 28.5 °C 35 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
16 Jul 30.0 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
17 Jul after 30.8 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 26
18 Jul after 26.0 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
19 Jul after 27.0 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jul after 27.4 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
21 Jul after 23.9 °C 38 % 44 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 48
22 Jul after 24.6 °C 45 % 41 km/h 7.5 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 30 Jun 2022
After · 23 Jul 2022

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 17 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1048 µg/m³
5678910111213141516171819
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 40Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Antratsyt fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 7 July 2022 to 16 July 2022 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 July 2022 to 12 July 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,911 hectares (19.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Antratsyt (1,905 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Antratsyt and came within 23.3 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 7 July 2022 to 12 July 2022. 40 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.