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Ivankiv fire, 8 April 2020 Іванківський район · Ivankiv, Poliske

Out · last detection 22 Apr 2020, 10:27 UTC

The fire started on 8 April 2020 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 11,075 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 4 in Ukraine in 2020, of 132.

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Burnt area
11,075ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
23days
8 Apr 2020 – 30 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
8 Apr
2020
Heat detections
460
in a single hotspot: 375 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
731MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Apr30 Apr
22 Apr 2020

How it evolved, day by day

8 Apr 2020 · 827 MW · 81 9 Apr 2020 · 3,752 MW · 167 10 Apr 2020 · 538 MW · 65 11 Apr 2020 · 92 MW · 36 12 Apr 2020 · 300 MW · 33 13 Apr 2020 · 1,056 MW · 71 16 Apr 2020 · 11 MW · 4 17 Apr 2020 · 6 MW · 2 22 Apr 2020 · 2 MW · 1
8 Apr 9 Apr 10 Apr 12 Apr 16 Apr 22 Apr

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

24°high
77km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 2 May.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 7% of the area of London (111 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Ivankiv Іванківський район 29,441 inhabitants · 14.4 km from the centre where it started
    11,027 ha reached on 8 Apr
    3.2 %
  2. Poliske Поліський район 5,622 inhabitants · 37.7 km from the centre
    80 ha reached on 9 Apr
    0.0 %

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

  • Coniferous forest52 %
  • Mixed forest23 %
  • Other natural land20 %
  • Agricultural areas4.3 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.6 %

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)
8 Apr 18.3 °C 26 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
9 Apr 19.6 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
10 Apr 11.9 °C 27 % 52 km/h 0.4 mm High 22
11 Apr 12.3 °C 23 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
12 Apr 11.9 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
13 Apr 21.7 °C 23 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
14 Apr 13.6 °C 37 % 46 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 1
15 Apr 8.0 °C 34 % 55 km/h 0.7 mm Low 6
16 Apr 18.5 °C 27 % 77 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
17 Apr 12.5 °C 23 % 56 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 16
18 Apr 11.8 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
19 Apr 11.1 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Apr 9.3 °C 36 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
21 Apr 10.3 °C 34 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
22 Apr 15.7 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Apr 17.8 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Apr 18.9 °C 23 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Apr 19.0 °C 30 % 42 km/h 0.5 mm High 24
26 Apr 12.7 °C 30 % 53 km/h 2.2 mm Moderate 12
27 Apr 14.7 °C 22 % 58 km/h 0.2 mm High 28
28 Apr 20.8 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
29 Apr 23.5 °C 23 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
30 Apr 19.9 °C 51 % 33 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 4
1 May after 18.1 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
2 May after 21.9 °C 46 % 48 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Apr 2020
After · 7 May 2020

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 9 April 2020 the air beside the fire reached 50 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak50 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1037 µg/m³
6789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930123
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)

Detections table · 460Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ivankiv fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 8 April 2020 and 30 April 2020: 23 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 11,075 hectares (110.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ivankiv (11,027 ha, 3.2 %); Poliske (80 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Ivankiv and came within 14.4 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 23.5 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 77 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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.

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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. 460 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.

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.