How long did the Holo Prystan fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 July 2024 to 5 July 2024 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 July 2024 to 5 July 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 326 hectares (3.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Holo Prystan (326 ha, 0.2 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 19.8 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 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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 · 2024-07-02 → 2024-07-05

Holo Prystan fire, 2 July 2024 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan

Out · last measured on 5 Jul 2024

The fire started on 2 July 2024 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 326 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 354th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 531 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: 326ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 4days; 2 Jul 2024 – 5 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 2 Jul; 2024
Danger at start: 32; High · FWI index

The weather it burned in

34°high

35km/h · peak gust

27%lowest humidity

It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

Holo Prystan Скадовський район 127,000 inhabitants · 19.8 km from the centre where it started

326 ha

0.2 %

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 land49 %
Mixed forest48 %
Coniferous forest2.2 %
Agricultural areas1.6 %

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)
3 Jul	33.5 °C	27 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
4 Jul	30.6 °C	49 %	25 km/h	0.7 mm	Moderate 18
5 Jul	31.6 °C	41 %	31 km/h	0.3 mm	High 25
6 Jul after	29.8 °C	31 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
7 Jul after	31.9 °C	30 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
8 Jul after	34.7 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
9 Jul after	35.9 °C	31 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
10 Jul after	37.1 °C	20 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
11 Jul after	36.5 °C	21 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
12 Jul after	36.7 °C	24 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
13 Jul after	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 42
15 Jul after	36.5 °C	33 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Jun 2024

After · 12 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 8 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 depth0.62

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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)

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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 2 July 2024 to 5 July 2024 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 July 2024 to 5 July 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 326 hectares (3.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Holo Prystan (326 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 19.8 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 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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 ›

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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 3 July 2024 to 5 July 2024. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

Where it burned