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Beryslav fire, 2 July 2024 Beryslav

Out · last measured on 2 Jul 2024

The fire started on 2 July 2024 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 205 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 579th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 927 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
205ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
2 Jul 2024 – 2 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Jul
2024
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

35°high
26km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 4 Jul.

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
    206 ha reached on 26 Jun
    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 areas67 %
  • Other natural land33 %

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 Jul 35.3 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jul after 34.4 °C 24 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
4 Jul after 33.1 °C 33 % 33 km/h 1.7 mm Moderate 20

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Jun 2024
After · 9 Jul 2024

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 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1028 µg/m³
Optical depth0.49
3012345
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Beryslav fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 July 2024 and 2 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 205 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (206 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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

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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.