Izium fire, 2 May 2024 Ізюмський район · Izium, Lyman
The fire started on 2 May 2024 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 339 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 95th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 508 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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- Burnt area
- 339ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 2 May 2024 – 4 May 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 2 May
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 28
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 47MW
- 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.
This area had burned before
4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 12 ha in 2022.
What happened to each town
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285 ha0.1 %
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52 ha0.0 %
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 forest76 %
- Mixed forest24 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 0.58 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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
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 7 May 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 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 · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 8,563 haSloviansk Слов'янський район29 July 2024 · 5 days · 4 km away
- 2,568 haLyman Лиманський район20 May 2024 · 9 days · 6 km away
- 1,345 haSloviansk Слов'янський район23 May 2024 · 5 days · 19 km away
- 1,336 haSloviansk Слов'янський район4 September 2024 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 2,535 haIzium Ізюмський район27 May 2024 · 6 days · 29 km away
- 2,641 haLyman Лиманський район26 April 2022 · 8 days · 32 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Izium fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 May 2024 and 4 May 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 339 hectares (3.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Izium (285 ha, 0.1 %); Lyman (52 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Izium and came within 26.4 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.
- 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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 5 May 2024 → 4 May 2024.
- Start date: 30 April 2024 → 2 May 2024.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 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.