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Ivankiv fire, 13 April 2020 Іванківський район · Ivankiv

Out · last detection 24 Apr 2020, 00:01 UTC

The fire started on 13 April 2020 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,739 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 18 in Ukraine in 2020, of 132.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.3 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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Burnt area
2,739ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
12days
13 Apr 2020 – 24 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Apr
2020
Heat detections
50
in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
34MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Apr24 Apr
24 Apr 2020

How it evolved, day by day

16 Apr 2020 · 3 MW · 2 17 Apr 2020 · 71 MW · 10 18 Apr 2020 · 116 MW · 20 19 Apr 2020 · 6 MW · 5 20 Apr 2020 · 2 MW · 1 23 Apr 2020 · 37 MW · 10 24 Apr 2020 · 2 MW · 2
16 Apr 17 Apr 18 Apr 19 Apr 20 Apr 23 Apr 24 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

18°high
76km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 26 Apr.

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 1.7% of the area of London (27 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 · 27.6 km from the centre where it started
    2,751 ha reached on 16 Apr
    0.8 %

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 forest35 %
  • Coniferous forest30 %
  • Other natural land17 %
  • Broadleaved forest16 %
  • Other land cover1.2 %
  • Agricultural areas0.7 %

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)
16 Apr 18.1 °C 28 % 76 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
17 Apr 12.4 °C 24 % 54 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 16
18 Apr 11.9 °C 24 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
19 Apr 10.9 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Apr 9.4 °C 36 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
21 Apr 10.4 °C 35 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Apr 15.8 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Apr 18.1 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Apr 18.9 °C 24 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Apr after 19.2 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.3 mm High 24
26 Apr after 13.2 °C 30 % 54 km/h 2.1 mm Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Apr 2020
After · 1 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 19 April 2020 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
PM1019 µg/m³
141516171819202122232425262728293012
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 · 50Every 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?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 April 2020 to 24 April 2020 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 April 2020 to 21 April 2020.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,739 hectares (27.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ivankiv (2,751 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Ivankiv and came within 27.6 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 18.1 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 76 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
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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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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 16 April 2020 to 21 April 2020. 50 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.