How long did the Borova fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 27 October 2021 and 27 October 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 138 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Borova (138 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.4 km of Borova. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 10.8 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2021-10-27 → 2021-10-27

Borova fire, October 2021 Борівський район · Borova

Out · last detection 27 Oct 2021, 10:59 UTC

The fire started on 27 October 2021 in Borova, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 138 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

This entry is probably an agricultural burn of stubble, meadow or peatland, not a wildfire. Before the war, stubble and meadows in Ukraine were burnt every spring and autumn, and the fire often got out of hand. This is our assumption, based on the time of year, ground with almost no woodland and the lack of news about this fire; it is not confirmed. That is why it is left out of the wildfire rankings.

Burnt area: 138ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 27 Oct 2021 – 27 Oct 2021
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 27 Oct; 2021
Heat detections: 1; in a single hotspot: 66 MW
Danger at start: 12; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 66MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Oct27 Oct

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

11°high

27km/h · peak gust

27%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.5 mm on 2 Nov.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Borova Борівський район 6.4 km from the town where it started

138 ha reached on 27 Oct

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

Other natural land89 %
Agricultural areas6.4 %
Mixed forest4.3 %
Other land cover0.7 %

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)
27 Oct	10.8 °C	27 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
28 Oct after	12.1 °C	58 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
29 Oct after	12.9 °C	60 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
30 Oct after	14.5 °C	46 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
31 Oct after	13.6 °C	45 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
1 Nov after	11.1 °C	70 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
2 Nov after	12.0 °C	82 %	43 km/h	3.5 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 20 Oct 2021

After · 3 Nov 2021

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 28 October 2021 the air beside the fire reached 28 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak28 µg/m³

Days over the guideline2 days

PM1034 µg/m³

WHO 15

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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 · 1Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Borova fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 27 October 2021 and 27 October 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 138 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Borova (138 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.4 km of Borova. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 10.8 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, 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.

Emergency number: 101 · 112

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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