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Dvorichna fire, 3 August 2024 Дворічанський район · Dvorichna

Out · last measured on 7 Aug 2024

The fire started on 3 August 2024 in Dvorichna, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,521 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 10th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 61 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
1,521ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
5days
3 Aug 2024 – 7 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
3 Aug
2024
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
46km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 12 Aug.

This area had burned before

4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 54 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1% of the area of London (15 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. Dvorichna Дворічанський район 7.2 km from the centre where it started
    1,381 ha
    1.4 %

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 areas60 %
  • Mixed forest23 %
  • Other natural land16 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.6 %

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)
3 Aug 28.6 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
4 Aug 27.7 °C 48 % 46 km/h 6.3 mm Very low 2
5 Aug 24.9 °C 53 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm Low 7
6 Aug 27.2 °C 41 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 16
7 Aug 28.3 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 19
8 Aug after 25.9 °C 41 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm High 30
9 Aug after 27.8 °C 34 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Aug after 28.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
11 Aug after 27.9 °C 33 % 52 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 42
12 Aug after 23.1 °C 34 % 54 km/h 2.0 mm High 28

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Jul 2024
After · 14 Aug 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 4 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak8 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1011 µg/m³
Optical depth0.50
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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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dvorichna fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 August 2024 and 7 August 2024: 5 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,521 hectares (15.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dvorichna (1,381 ha, 1.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Dvorichna and came within 7.2 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 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.

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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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.