Holo Prystan fire, 1 June 2024 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan
The fire started on 1 June 2024 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 629 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 150th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 231 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
- 629ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 1 Jun 2024 – 2 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 Jun
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
40% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 250 ha in 2023.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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629 ha0.3 %
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
- Mixed forest63 %
- Other natural land28 %
- Coniferous forest9.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun | 28.9 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 2 Jun | 29.1 °C | 34 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 3 Jun after | 30.3 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 4 Jun after | 30.7 °C | 32 % | 26 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 5 Jun after | 31.1 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 6 Jun after | 27.9 °C | 39 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 7 Jun after | 31.5 °C | 31 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 8 Jun after | 30.6 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 23 |
| 9 Jun after | 30.3 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 10 Jun after | 30.3 °C | 31 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Jun after | 32.2 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 12 Jun after | 29.4 °C | 45 % | 45 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 27 |
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 3 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 16 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
- 5,107 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район10 August 2026 · 9 days · 5 km away
- 3,781 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район1 July 2024 · 9 days · 9 km away
- 2,823 haOleshky Олешківський район6 June 2025 · 4 days · 17 km away
- 2,739 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район18 July 2024 · 3 days · 24 km away
- 2,768 haOleshky Олешківський район2 June 2025 · 10 days · 33 km away
- 3,517 haOleshky Олешківський район24 June 2025 · 7 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Holo Prystan fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 1 June 2024 and 2 June 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 629 hectares (6.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Holo Prystan (629 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 24.4 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 29.1 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
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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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.