How long did the Bilozerka fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 29 June 2024 and 29 June 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 249 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Bilozerka (249 ha, 0.2 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Bilozerka and came within 35.6 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 31.4 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2024-06-29 → 2024-06-29

Bilozerka fire, 29 June 2024 Білозерський район · Bilozerka

Out · last measured on 29 Jun 2024

The fire started on 29 June 2024 in Bilozerka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 249 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 476th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 721 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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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: 249ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 29 Jun 2024 – 29 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 29 Jun; 2024
Danger at start: 29; High · FWI index

The weather it burned in

31°high

37km/h · peak gust

31%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 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

Bilozerka Білозерський район 64,790 inhabitants · 35.6 km from the centre where it started

249 ha reached on 24 Jun

0.2 %

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 areas85 %
Other natural land12 %
Artificial surfaces2.4 %

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)
29 Jun	31.4 °C	31 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
30 Jun after	32.7 °C	26 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
1 Jul after	33.8 °C	26 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
2 Jul after	33.8 °C	29 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
3 Jul after	34.1 °C	26 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
4 Jul after	31.9 °C	39 %	28 km/h	0.3 mm	High 28
5 Jul after	31.7 °C	39 %	33 km/h	0.5 mm	High 30
6 Jul after	29.7 °C	30 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
7 Jul after	31.8 °C	29 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
8 Jul after	35.2 °C	28 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
9 Jul after	36.4 °C	30 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 22 Jun 2024

After · 6 Jul 2024

Before After

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 29 June 2024 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

PM1022 µg/m³

Optical depth0.26

WHO 15

2728293012

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 Bilozerka fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 29 June 2024 and 29 June 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 249 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Bilozerka (249 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Bilozerka and came within 35.6 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 31.4 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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.

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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.

Where it burned