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Bilozerka fire, 11 July 2024 Білозерський район · Bilozerka

Out · last measured on 13 Jul 2024

The fire started on 11 July 2024 in Bilozerka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 521 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 197th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 304 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
521ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
11 Jul 2024 – 13 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
11 Jul
2024
Danger at start
50
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

38°high
42km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.3 mm on 22 Jul.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 10 ha in 2022, 159 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5.2 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. Bilozerka Білозерський район 64,790 inhabitants · 18.7 km from the centre where it started
    520 ha
    0.4 %

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 areas58 %
  • Other natural land37 %
  • Artificial surfaces4.4 %

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)
11 Jul 37.3 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
12 Jul 37.6 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Jul 34.8 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
14 Jul after 36.1 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
15 Jul after 37.6 °C 30 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Jul after 38.9 °C 23 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
17 Jul after 39.0 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Jul after 38.9 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Jul after 34.1 °C 39 % 40 km/h 0.9 mm High 32
20 Jul after 32.7 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Jul after 33.2 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Jul after 31.5 °C 42 % 23 km/h 7.3 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jul 2024
After · 20 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 9 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1024 µg/m³
Optical depth0.55
910111213141516
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 11 July 2024 and 13 July 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 521 hectares (5.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bilozerka (520 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Bilozerka and came within 18.7 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 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 50, class Very 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 ›

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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 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.

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.