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Holo Prystan fire, 12 July 2024 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan

Out · last measured on 13 Jul 2024

The fire started on 12 July 2024 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 175 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 677th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1102 with a page). Number 1136 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
175ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
12 Jul 2024 – 13 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
12 Jul
2024
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

37°high
37km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.7 mm on 23 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Holo Prystan Скадовський район 127,000 inhabitants · 16.6 km from the centre where it started
    175 ha reached on 16 Jul
    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

  • Other natural land100 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
12 Jul 36.7 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
13 Jul 34.1 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
14 Jul after 35.1 °C 23 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
15 Jul after 36.5 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Jul after 38.1 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
17 Jul after 37.9 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
18 Jul after 37.7 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
19 Jul after 33.5 °C 41 % 38 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 38
20 Jul after 32.3 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
21 Jul after 32.8 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Jul after 31.9 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.7 mm High 27
23 Jul after 32.6 °C 28 % 31 km/h 3.7 mm Moderate 16

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 44.5, a minimum humidity of 24% and 25 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 25.

FWI at the start 44.5
Minimum humidity 24 %
Days without rain 25
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Kalanchak fire, September 2023
1,052 ha 3 days FWI 42.7 Min. humidity 24 % 72 km away, in 2023

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.6 mm on 6 Oct.

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What happened to them

3 days
median duration
212 ha
median area
16 %
went past 1,000 ha
10.0 mm
rain at the end (median; 18 of 25 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (175 ha against a median of 212 ha) and lasted 2 days, against 3 days.

In 7 of 25, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 10.0 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

3.7 mmfirst rain
23 Jul10 days after it ended
37km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 13 Jul, and on 23 Jul 3.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 18 of 25, with a median of 10.0 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2022.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jul 2024
After · 20 Jul 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 10 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.39
10 Jul12 Jul14 Jul16 Jul
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Holo Prystan fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 12 July 2024 and 13 July 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 175 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Holo Prystan (175 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 16.6 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 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 25. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 212 ha; 16 % went past 1,000 ha. In 7 of 25, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 10.0 mm.

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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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.

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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.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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.