Drohobych fire, 18 November 2024 Дрогобицький район · Drohobych
The fire started on 18 November 2024 in Drohobych, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 156 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 57th largest in Lviv Oblast since 2016 (of 105 with a page). Number 1276 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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
- 156ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 18 Nov 2024 – 18 Nov 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 18 Nov
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 5
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.8 mm on 20 Nov.
This area had burned before
94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 91 ha in 2021, 55 ha in 2022.
- 69 ha Drohobych fire, October 2021 452 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 55 ha Drohobych fire, March 2022 192 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 22 ha Drohobych fire, October 2021 221 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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156 ha0.1 %
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 land60 %
- Mixed forest26 %
- Agricultural areas7.7 %
- Broadleaved forest7.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Nov | 6.7 °C | 61 % | 56 km/h | 0.3 mm | Low 5 |
| 19 Nov after | 10.0 °C | 64 % | 47 km/h | 0.7 mm | Very low 5 |
| 20 Nov after | 10.6 °C | 67 % | 54 km/h | 9.8 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 16 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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
- 530 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район22 February 2025 · 3 days · 2 km away
- 452 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район20 October 2021 · 4 days · 2 km away
- 1,006 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район29 January 2025 · 5 days · 4 km away
- 1,146 haSambir Самбірський районMarch 2020 · 6 days · 6 km away
- 865 haSambir Самбірський район14 March 2026 · 1 day · 6 km away
- 601 haSambir Самбірський районApril 2021 · 1 day · 8 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Drohobych fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 18 November 2024 and 18 November 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 156 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Drohobych (156 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 19.2 km of Drohobych. 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 6.7 °C, humidity dropped to 61 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 5, class Low.
- 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
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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.