Ivankiv fire, 4 May 2022 Іванківський район · Ivankiv
The fire started on 4 May 2022 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 214 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 80th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 243 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.
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- Burnt area
- 214ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 4 May 2022 – 7 May 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 4 May
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 22
- in a single hotspot: 108 MW
- Danger at start
- 11
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 117MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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214 ha reached on 4 May0.1 %
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
- Coniferous forest71 %
- Mixed forest17 %
- Other natural land11 %
- Agricultural areas0.9 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May | 14.4 °C | 26 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 5 May | 14.8 °C | 27 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 6 May | 18.5 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 7 May | 19.1 °C | 28 % | 34 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 8 May after | 20.6 °C | 39 % | 23 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 9 May after | 16.3 °C | 25 % | 38 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 10 May after | 16.1 °C | 25 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 11 May after | 20.7 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 12 May after | 29.3 °C | 25 % | 64 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 28 |
| 13 May after | 20.0 °C | 29 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 14 May after | 19.3 °C | 40 % | 45 km/h | 0.6 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 15 May after | 16.7 °C | 39 % | 49 km/h | 0.6 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 16 May after | 17.8 °C | 27 % | 50 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 17 May after | 17.6 °C | 24 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 12 May 2022 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 22Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,436 haIvankiv Іванківський район28 June 2026 · 8 days · 5 km away
- 6,968 haIvankiv Іванківський район11 May 2022 · 11 days · 10 km away
- 2,777 haPoliske Поліський район16 April 2020 · 7 days · 11 km away
- 1,317 haPoliske Поліський районJune 2026 · 6 days · 11 km away
- 1,994 haIvankiv Іванківський район7 May 2026 · 17 days · 16 km away
- 11,075 haIvankiv Іванківський район8 April 2020 · 23 days · 22 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ivankiv fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 4 May 2022 and 7 May 2022: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 214 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ivankiv (214 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Ivankiv and came within 11.1 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 19.1 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
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. 22 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.
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.