How long did the Hlobyne fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 18 July 2024 and 18 July 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 179 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hlobyne (170 ha, 0.1 %); Chornobai (9 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 28.5 km of Hlobyne. 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 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2024-07-18 → 2024-07-18

Hlobyne fire, July 2024 Глобинський район · Hlobyne, Chornobai

Out · last detection 18 Jul 2024, 10:02 UTC

The fire started on 18 July 2024 in Hlobyne, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 179 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 24th largest in Poltava Oblast since 2016 (of 45 with a page). Number 1100 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

Burnt area: 179ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 18 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 18 Jul; 2024
Heat detections: 3; in a single hotspot: 118 MW
Danger at start: 28; High · FWI index
Energy released: 126MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul18 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

44%lowest humidity

It had gone 24 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

Hlobyne Глобинський район 28.5 km from the town where it started

170 ha reached on 18 Jul

0.1 %
Chornobai Чорнобаївський район 39,584 inhabitants · 34.1 km from the town

9 ha

0.0 %

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 land98 %
Other land cover2.2 %

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 Jul	33.5 °C	44 %	35 km/h	0.9 mm	High 28
19 Jul after	29.3 °C	45 %	35 km/h	0.3 mm	High 25
20 Jul after	28.8 °C	37 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
21 Jul after	29.3 °C	35 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
22 Jul after	28.4 °C	43 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
23 Jul after	27.4 °C	45 %	30 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
24 Jul after	27.1 °C	45 %	26 km/h	0.2 mm	High 26
25 Jul after	26.7 °C	37 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
26 Jul after	28.6 °C	40 %	24 km/h	0.1 mm	High 24
27 Jul after	29.2 °C	39 %	19 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
28 Jul after	30.0 °C	42 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 11 Jul 2024

After · 25 Jul 2024

Before After

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 16 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1011 µg/m³

Optical depth0.51

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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)

Detections table · 3Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Hlobyne fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 18 July 2024 and 18 July 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 179 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Hlobyne (170 ha, 0.1 %); Chornobai (9 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 28.5 km of Hlobyne. 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 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned