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Dvorichna fire, 19 September 2024 Дворічанський район · Dvorichna

Out · last detection 20 Sept 2024, 10:02 UTC

The fire started on 19 September 2024 in Dvorichna, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 100 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 555th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 2071 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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Burnt area
100ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
19 Sept 2024 – 20 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
19 Sept
2024
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 39 MW
Danger at start
46
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
48MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Sept20 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

20 Sept 2024 · 48 MW · 2

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
40km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 36 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 happened to each town

  1. Dvorichna Дворічанський район 8.9 km from the centre where it started
    99 ha reached on 20 Sept
    0.1 %

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 areas93 %
  • Mixed forest7.1 %

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)
19 Sept 23.9 °C 15 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Sept 24.8 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
21 Sept after 25.1 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
22 Sept after 26.5 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Sept after 24.7 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
24 Sept after 24.6 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Sept after 23.2 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
26 Sept after 25.0 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
27 Sept after 22.7 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
28 Sept after 26.3 °C 29 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
29 Sept after 25.4 °C 16 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
30 Sept after 24.8 °C 24 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Sept 2024
After · 27 Sept 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 21 September 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
PM1010 µg/m³
Optical depth0.20
17181920212223
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 · 2Every 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 Dvorichna fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 19 September 2024 and 20 September 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 100 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dvorichna (99 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Dvorichna and came within 8.9 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 24.8 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 46, 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 2 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.

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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.