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Izium fire, 27 June 2022 Ізюмський район · Izium, Lyman

Out · last detection 6 Jul 2022, 10:33 UTC

The fire started on 27 June 2022 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 666 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 29th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 70 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

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Burnt area
666ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
10days
27 Jun 2022 – 6 Jul 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
27 Jun
2022
Heat detections
50
in a single hotspot: 49 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Average daily power
37MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Jun6 Jul
6 Jul 2022

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jun 2022 · 4 MW · 5 29 Jun 2022 · 90 MW · 17 30 Jun 2022 · 5 MW · 4 1 Jul 2022 · 165 MW · 11 2 Jul 2022 · 39 MW · 5 3 Jul 2022 · 9 MW · 3 4 Jul 2022 · 1 MW · 1 5 Jul 2022 · 10 MW · 2 6 Jul 2022 · 8 MW · 2
28 Jun 30 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 4 Jul 6 Jul

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
47km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.2 mm on 11 Jul.

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 0.4% of the area of London (6.7 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. Izium Ізюмський район 17,029 inhabitants · 21.1 km from the centre where it started
    663 ha reached on 28 Jun
    0.3 %
  2. Lyman Лиманський район 21,813 inhabitants · 44.5 km from the centre
    0 ha
    0.0 %

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

  • Mixed forest64 %
  • Coniferous forest33 %
  • Other natural land3.6 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable 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)
27 Jun 29.7 °C 34 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
28 Jun 31.2 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 19
29 Jun 28.8 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
30 Jun 27.1 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
1 Jul 28.0 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
2 Jul 24.0 °C 31 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Jul 27.6 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
4 Jul 31.3 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jul 31.5 °C 30 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
6 Jul 33.0 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Jul after 33.5 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Jul after 32.6 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
9 Jul after 33.6 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Jul after 30.2 °C 32 % 39 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 38
11 Jul after 24.4 °C 38 % 30 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Jun 2022
After · 13 Jul 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 9 July 2022 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak23 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1044 µg/m³
252627282930123456789
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 Izium fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 June 2022 to 6 July 2022 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 27 June 2022 to 30 June 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 666 hectares (6.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Izium (663 ha, 0.3 %); Lyman (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Izium and came within 21.1 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 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 27 June 2022 to 30 June 2022. 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.
  • 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.

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.