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Ivankiv fire, 11 May 2022 Іванківський район · Ivankiv

Out · last detection 21 May 2022, 00:08 UTC

The fire started on 11 May 2022 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 6,968 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 3th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). The largest in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

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Burnt area
6,968ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
11days
11 May 2022 – 21 May 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
11 May
2022
Heat detections
226
in a single hotspot: 250 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
456MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 May21 May
21 May 2022

How it evolved, day by day

11 May 2022 · 15 MW · 3 12 May 2022 · 674 MW · 35 13 May 2022 · 8 MW · 4 16 May 2022 · 2 MW · 2 17 May 2022 · 2,859 MW · 147 18 May 2022 · 38 MW · 26 19 May 2022 · 48 MW · 7 21 May 2022 · 1 MW · 2
11 May 13 May 17 May 19 May

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

The weather it burned in

29°high
72km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.6 mm on 18 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 4.4% of the area of London (70 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 · 13.9 km from the centre where it started
    6,961 ha reached on 11 May
    2.0 %

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 forest59 %
  • Mixed forest23 %
  • Other natural land17 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.7 %

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)
11 May 20.1 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
12 May 28.9 °C 27 % 72 km/h 0.6 mm High 30
13 May 20.7 °C 29 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
14 May 19.0 °C 39 % 49 km/h 1.1 mm Moderate 15
15 May 17.2 °C 41 % 54 km/h 0.4 mm High 27
16 May 18.1 °C 29 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 May 17.2 °C 24 % 56 km/h 0.3 mm High 36
18 May 13.5 °C 48 % 55 km/h 3.6 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 May 2022
After · 28 May 2022

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 12 May 2022 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1027 µg/m³
9101112131415161718192021222324
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 · 226Every 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 11 May 2022 to 21 May 2022 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 11 May 2022 to 16 May 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 6,968 hectares (69.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ivankiv (6,961 ha, 2.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Ivankiv and came within 13.9 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 28.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 72 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, 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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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 11 May 2022 to 16 May 2022. 226 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.