Burned area
satellite only160ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 29 August 2023
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UA · Ukraine ·
Chornomorske fire, 23 August 2023 Чорноморський район · Ukraine
Out · last measured on 23 Aug 2023
The fire started on 23 August 2023 in Chornomorske, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 160 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 67th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 294 in Ukraine in 2023, of 491.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
23 Aug 2023 to 23 Aug 2023: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Aug 2023 – 23 Aug 2023
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only23 Aug 2023
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Aug 2023
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model26.5FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 11.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2023, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model28.6°C · 38% RH
High of 28.6 °C and minimum humidity of 38% on 23 August 2023; gusts of 26 km/h on 23 August 2023.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 23 Aug 2023 – 23 Aug 2023
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 160 ha
- Dates
- 23 Aug 2023 – 23 Aug 2023
- Name
- Chornomorske
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/chornomorske-2023-08?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire chornomorske-2023-08.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 23.1 | 38 | 19.4 | 26.3 | 0 | 26.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2023-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 28.2 | 21.7 | 47 | 10.9 | 20.9 | 0 | 22.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-25 | 0 | 0 | 27.5 | 21.8 | 55 | 15.5 | 28.1 | 0 | 29.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-26 | 0 | 0 | 29.2 | 21.7 | 37 | 9 | 20.9 | 0 | 25.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-27 | 0 | 0 | 29.8 | 22.8 | 39 | 15.5 | 29.2 | 0 | 24.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 30.3 | 23.7 | 51 | 18.7 | 33.8 | 0 | 35.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 31.8 | 24.9 | 47 | 26.3 | 38.2 | 0.3 | 35 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 21.4 | 33 | 28.5 | 43.9 | 0 | 53.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2023-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 29.2 | 21.7 | 53 | 12.3 | 22.7 | 0 | 30.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2023-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 26.8 | 23.1 | 57 | 22.8 | 36.4 | 0.3 | 21.1 | moderado | 0 |
| 2023-09-02 | 0 | 0 | 27.1 | 21 | 46 | 25.2 | 36.7 | 0 | 30.3 | alto | 0 |
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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
- 160ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 23 Aug 2023 – 23 Aug 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- districts
- Started on
- 23 Aug
- 2023
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
29°high
26km/h · peak gust
38%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 burned
- Other natural land100 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug | 28.6 °C | 38 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 24 Aug after | 28.2 °C | 47 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 25 Aug after | 27.5 °C | 55 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 26 Aug after | 29.2 °C | 37 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Aug after | 29.8 °C | 39 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 28 Aug after | 30.3 °C | 51 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 29 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 47 % | 38 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 35 |
| 30 Aug after | 30.0 °C | 33 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 31 Aug after | 29.2 °C | 53 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 1 Sept after | 26.8 °C | 57 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 2 Sept after | 27.1 °C | 46 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 26.5, a minimum humidity of 38% and 11 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 31.
FWI at the start
26.5
Minimum humidity
38 %
Days without rain
11
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Chornomorske fire, 23 August 2023
160 ha
1 day
FWI 26.5
Min. humidity 38 %
Holo Prystan fire, June 2024
609 ha
3 days
FWI 27.3
Min. humidity 38 %
120 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 14 Jun.
Oleshky fire, June 2024
804 ha
6 days
FWI 27.3
Min. humidity 38 %
125 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 14 Jun.
Oleshky fire, June 2024
110 ha
1 day
FWI 27.3
Min. humidity 38 %
127 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 14 Jun.
Oleshky fire, June 2024
121 ha
6 days
FWI 27.3
Min. humidity 38 %
128 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 14 Jun.
Oleshky fire, June 2024
314 ha
6 days
FWI 27.4
Min. humidity 38 %
127 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 14 Jun.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 180 ha
- median area
- 3 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 3.5 mm
- rain at the end (median; 23 of 31 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (160 ha against a median of 180 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 3 days.
In 8 of 31, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.5 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
26km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 23 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 23 of 31, with a median of 3.5 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2022.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 16 Aug 2023
After · 30 Aug 2023
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 21 August 2023 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1028 µg/m³
Optical depth0.28
WHO 15
21 Aug23 Aug25 Aug
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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)
Other fires nearby
- 1,259 haChornomorske Чорноморський район29 August 2023 · 1 day · 4 km away
- 327 haChornomorske Чорноморський районJune 2025 · 1 day · 7 km away
- 112 haChornomorske Чорноморський районAugust 2025 · 1 day · 16 km away
- 181 haChornomorske Чорноморський район29 August 2023 · 2 days · 17 km away
- 386 haChornomorske Чорноморський районJuly 2026 · 1 day · 37 km away
- 320 haChornomorske Чорноморський районSeptember 2023 · 1 day · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Chornomorske fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 23 August 2023 and 23 August 2023: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 160 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 31. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 180 ha; 3 % went past 1,000 ha. In 8 of 31, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.5 mm.
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.
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.