Antratsyt fire, October 2024 Антрацитівський район · Antratsyt
The fire started on 2 October 2024 in Antratsyt, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 769 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 98th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 175 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
The power measured by the satellite is low (29.7 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
- 769ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 5days
- 2 Oct 2024 – 6 Oct 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 2 Oct
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 28
- in a single hotspot: 30 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 39MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 7 Oct.
This area had burned before
6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 47 ha in 2023.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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770 ha reached on 2 Oct0.3 %
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
- Agricultural areas44 %
- Other natural land38 %
- Mixed forest18 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct | 23.4 °C | 18 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 3 Oct | 22.4 °C | 20 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Oct | 22.1 °C | 25 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 5 Oct | 23.6 °C | 28 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Oct | 24.9 °C | 29 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 7 Oct after | 24.7 °C | 37 % | 37 km/h | 1.3 mm | Moderate 20 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 3 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 70 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 25: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 28Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 3,012 haAntratsyt Антрацитівський район16 September 2024 · 3 days · 21 km away
- 3,174 haAntratsyt Антрацитівський район13 September 2024 · 7 days · 22 km away
- 2,602 haAntratsyt Антрацитівський район10 July 2024 · 4 days · 29 km away
- 2,431 haAntratsyt Антрацитівський район10 August 2024 · 11 days · 34 km away
- 2,237 haBakhmut Бахмутський район5 October 2024 · 2 days · 35 km away
- 2,486 haAntratsyt Антрацитівський район28 September 2023 · 1 day · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Antratsyt fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 October 2024 and 6 October 2024: 5 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 769 hectares (7.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Antratsyt (770 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Antratsyt and came within 22.4 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 24.9 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class High.
- 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 28 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.
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.