Ivankiv fire, 23 August 2022 Іванківський район · Ivankiv
The fire started on 23 August 2022 in Ivankiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 698 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 29th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 62 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.
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- Burnt area
- 698ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 10days
- 23 Aug 2022 – 1 Sept 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 23 Aug
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 67
- in a single hotspot: 65 MW
- Danger at start
- 18
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 192MW
- 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 one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.1 mm on 10 Sept.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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702 ha reached on 23 Aug0.2 %
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
- Other natural land46 %
- Mixed forest34 %
- Coniferous forest17 %
- Agricultural areas3.3 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Inside the perimeter there were about 0.67 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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 | 30.7 °C | 31 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 24 Aug | 32.5 °C | 26 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 25 Aug | 32.8 °C | 23 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 26 Aug | 32.2 °C | 21 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 27 Aug | 29.3 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 28 Aug | 27.0 °C | 41 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 29 Aug | 32.2 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 30 Aug | 26.7 °C | 34 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 31 Aug | 22.4 °C | 45 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 1 Sept | 20.0 °C | 32 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Sept after | 18.9 °C | 29 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 3 Sept after | 19.8 °C | 31 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 4 Sept after | 19.9 °C | 27 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 5 Sept after | 17.0 °C | 41 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 22 |
| 6 Sept after | 14.5 °C | 42 % | 32 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 7 Sept after | 18.6 °C | 30 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 8 Sept after | 18.6 °C | 43 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 9 Sept after | 15.9 °C | 38 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 10 Sept after | 10.4 °C | 65 % | 51 km/h | 10.1 mm | Very low 0 |
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 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).
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 · 67Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,739 haIvankiv Іванківський район13 April 2020 · 12 days · 8 km away
- 11,075 haIvankiv Іванківський район8 April 2020 · 23 days · 10 km away
- 3,027 haIvankiv Іванківський район25 June 2026 · 28 days · 10 km away
- 1,994 haIvankiv Іванківський район7 May 2026 · 17 days · 20 km away
- 1,317 haPoliske Поліський районJune 2026 · 6 days · 28 km away
- 1,436 haIvankiv Іванківський район28 June 2026 · 8 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ivankiv fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 August 2022 to 1 September 2022 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 August 2022 to 27 August 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 698 hectares (7.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ivankiv (702 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Ivankiv and came within 28.9 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 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, 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 ›
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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 24 August 2022 to 27 August 2022. 67 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.