How long did the Ivankiv fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 23 August 2022 and 26 August 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 231 hectares (2.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Ivankiv (232 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 31.2 km of Ivankiv. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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 · 2022-08-23 → 2022-08-26

Ivankiv fire, 23 August 2022 Іванківський район · Ivankiv

Out · last detection 26 Aug 2022, 11:19 UTC

The fire started on 23 August 2022 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 231 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 73th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 220 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 231ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 4days; 23 Aug 2022 – 26 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 23 Aug; 2022
Heat detections: 19; in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Danger at start: 21; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 26MW; detected power per day, on average

Play back 26 Aug 2022

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Aug26 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

23 Aug 24 Aug 25 Aug 26 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

33°high

54km/h · peak gust

21%lowest humidity

It had gone one day 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

Ivankiv Іванківський район 29,441 inhabitants · 31.2 km from the town where it started

232 ha reached on 23 Aug

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Mixed forest70 %
Other natural land18 %
Coniferous forest10 %
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)
23 Aug	30.8 °C	30 %	54 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 21
24 Aug	32.5 °C	26 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
25 Aug	32.9 °C	22 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
26 Aug	32.2 °C	21 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
27 Aug after	29.4 °C	31 %	35 km/h	0.3 mm	High 28
28 Aug after	27.0 °C	41 %	20 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 18
29 Aug after	32.0 °C	22 %	32 km/h	0.2 mm	High 27
30 Aug after	26.5 °C	35 %	38 km/h	0.1 mm	High 27
31 Aug after	22.5 °C	46 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
1 Sept after	20.0 °C	32 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
2 Sept after	18.8 °C	29 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
3 Sept after	19.5 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
4 Sept after	19.8 °C	27 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
5 Sept after	16.9 °C	41 %	37 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 16 Aug 2022

After · 2 Sept 2022

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 22 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³

Days over the guideline2 days

PM10122 µg/m³

Optical depth0.36

WHO 15

212223242526272829303112

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 · 19Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ivankiv fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 23 August 2022 and 26 August 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 231 hectares (2.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Ivankiv (232 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 31.2 km of Ivankiv. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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

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EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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