Burned area
satellite only158ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 17 July 2024
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UA · Ukraine · –
Holo Prystan fire, 12 July 2024 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan
Out · last detection 14 Jul 2024, 11:41 UTC
The fire started on 12 July 2024 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 158 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 745th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1102 with a page). Number 1263 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
The power measured by the satellite is low (6.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only7days
12 Jul 2024 to 18 Jul 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 14 Jul 2024, 11:41 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only12 Jul 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 12 Jul 2024
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only3
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 6 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 12 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only7MW
Total radiative power on 13 July 2024; hotspots that day: 2.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Jul 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model55.4FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 25.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 12 Jul 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model36.8°C · 31% RH
High of 36.8 °C and minimum humidity of 31% on 16 July 2024; gusts of 37 km/h on 16 July 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 12 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 13 July 2024 → 12 July 2024.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 5 November 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 158 ha
- Dates
- 12 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
- Name
- Holo Prystan
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/holo-prystan-2024-07-23?v=2026-11-05A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire holo-prystan-2024-07-23.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-12 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 23.2 | 29 | 17 | 29.5 | 0 | 55.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-13 | 2 | 7 | 34.4 | 23 | 21 | 15.3 | 27.7 | 0 | 51.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-14 | 1 | 6 | 33.5 | 21.4 | 30 | 12.5 | 21.2 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | 0 | 0 | 34.8 | 23.6 | 39 | 17.3 | 30.2 | 0 | 50.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-16 | 0 | 0 | 36.8 | 25.4 | 31 | 20.5 | 37.1 | 0.1 | 58.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-07-17 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 25.4 | 31 | 16 | 24.8 | 0 | 48.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-18 | 0 | 0 | 34.3 | 25.1 | 45 | 19.4 | 33.1 | 0 | 31.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-07-19 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 25.3 | 51 | 22 | 36.7 | 0.3 | 44.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 22.4 | 42 | 18.6 | 31 | 0 | 35.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-21 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 21.6 | 34 | 15.9 | 22.7 | 0 | 30.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-22 | 0 | 0 | 30.5 | 22.8 | 44 | 14.9 | 27.4 | 0.5 | 24 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 21 | 33 | 16.3 | 28.1 | 4.5 | 16.5 | moderado | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 158ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 7days
- 12 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 12 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 3
- in a single hotspot: 6 MW
- Danger at start
- 55
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 6MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
12 Jul18 Jul
14 Jul 2024
How it evolved, day by day
13 Jul
14 Jul
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
37°high
37km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity
It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.5 mm on 23 Jul.
This area had burned before
13% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 20 ha in 2023.
What happened to each town
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158 ha reached on 13 Jul0.1 %
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
- Mixed forest71 %
- Other natural land29 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-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)
Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jul | 35.0 °C | 29 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 13 Jul | 34.4 °C | 21 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 14 Jul | 33.5 °C | 30 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 15 Jul | 34.8 °C | 39 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 16 Jul | 36.8 °C | 31 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 17 Jul | 35.7 °C | 31 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 18 Jul | 34.3 °C | 45 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 19 Jul after | 32.1 °C | 51 % | 37 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Jul after | 31.6 °C | 42 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 21 Jul after | 31.6 °C | 34 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 22 Jul after | 30.5 °C | 44 % | 27 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Jul after | 32.3 °C | 33 % | 28 km/h | 4.5 mm | Moderate 16 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 55.4, a minimum humidity of 29% and 25 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 44.
FWI at the start
55.4
Minimum humidity
29 %
Days without rain
25
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Holo Prystan fire, 12 July 2024
158 ha
7 days
FWI 55.4
Min. humidity 29 %
Bilozerka fire, September 2023
142 ha
1 day
FWI 54.6
Min. humidity 30 %
33 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 15 Sept.
Holo Prystan fire, July 2025
750 ha
4 days
FWI 51.7
Min. humidity 29 %
24 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Holo Prystan fire, September 2023
1,350 ha
4 days
FWI 56.6
Min. humidity 27 %
15 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.5 mm on 6 Oct.
Kalanchak fire, September 2023
179 ha
1 day
FWI 53.6
Min. humidity 31 %
75 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Oleshky fire, July 2025
200 ha
2 days
FWI 52.8
Min. humidity 30 %
70 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 250 ha
- median area
- 11 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 4.9 mm
- rain at the end (median; 22 of 44 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 158 ha against a median of 250 ha. It lasted 7 days, against 3 days.
In 22 of 44, 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 4.9 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
4.5 mmfirst rain
23 Jul5 days after it ended
37km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Jul, and on 23 Jul 4.5 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 22 of 44, with a median of 4.9 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.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 5 Jul 2024
After · 25 Jul 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 13 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.39
11 Jul13 Jul15 Jul17 Jul
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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.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 3,083 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район6 August 2025 · 11 days · 18 km away
- 2,881 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район7 July 2024 · 6 days · 20 km away
- 3,629 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район6 June 2025 · 6 days · 31 km away
- 6,113 haHolo Prystan Скадовський районApril 2022 · 7 days · 32 km away
- 3,781 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район1 July 2024 · 9 days · 33 km away
- 5,107 haHolo Prystan Скадовський район10 August 2026 · 9 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Holo Prystan fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 July 2024 to 18 July 2024 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 July 2024 to 14 July 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 158 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Holo Prystan (158 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 24.1 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 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 58, class Extreme.
- 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: 44. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 250 ha; 11 % went past 1,000 ha. In 22 of 44, 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 4.9 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
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 13 July 2024 → 12 July 2024.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 13 July 2024 to 14 July 2024. 3 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.
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.