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Borova fire, 7 July 2022 Борівський район · Borova

Out · last detection 9 Jul 2022, 09:37 UTC

The fire started on 7 July 2022 in Borova, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 720 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 59 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

Burnt area
720ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
7 Jul 2022 – 9 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
7 Jul
2022
Heat detections
35
in a single hotspot: 130 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Energy released
788MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

9 Jul 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jul9 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

789

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
35km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.2 mm on 11 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. Borova Борівський район 12.7 km from the town where it started
    718 ha reached on 7 Jul
    0.7 %

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

  • Coniferous forest40 %
  • Agricultural areas27 %
  • Mixed forest19 %
  • Other natural land14 %

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)
7 Jul 33.5 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
8 Jul 32.7 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Jul 33.6 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
10 Jul after 30.3 °C 32 % 39 km/h 0.2 mm High 38
11 Jul after 24.5 °C 38 % 30 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Jun 2022
After · 16 Jul 2022

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 2022 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1047 µg/m³
56789101112
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 · 35Every 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 Borova fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 July 2022 and 9 July 2022: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 720 hectares (7.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Borova (718 ha, 0.7 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 12.7 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 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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.

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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.