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Beryslav fire, 15 August 2023 Beryslav

Out · last detection 15 Aug 2023, 10:40 UTC

The fire started on 15 August 2023 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 188 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 631th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 246 in Ukraine in 2023, of 491.

Burnt area
188ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
15 Aug 2023 – 16 Aug 2023
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
15 Aug
2023
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 57 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
128MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 15 Aug16 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

15

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
38km/h · peak gust
42%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    187 ha reached on 15 Aug
    0.1 %

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

What burned

  • Agricultural areas61 %
  • Other natural land30 %
  • Mixed forest4.8 %
  • Artificial surfaces3.7 %

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)
15 Aug 30.5 °C 42 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
16 Aug 31.9 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
17 Aug after 32.0 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
18 Aug after 30.6 °C 40 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
19 Aug after 33.4 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
20 Aug after 35.9 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
21 Aug after 36.4 °C 26 % 33 km/h 0.4 mm High 28
22 Aug after 33.4 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 28
23 Aug after 30.4 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
24 Aug after 29.8 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
25 Aug after 29.9 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
26 Aug after 32.0 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Aug 2023
After · 23 Aug 2023

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 18 August 2023 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1026 µg/m³
Optical depth0.25
13141516171819
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 · 7Every 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 Beryslav fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 August 2023 and 16 August 2023: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 188 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (187 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.9 °C, humidity dropped to 42 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, class Moderate.
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.

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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.