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Izium fire, 2 June 2024 Ізюмський район · Izium

Out · last detection 4 Jun 2024, 10:27 UTC

The fire started on 2 June 2024 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,016 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 8th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 44 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

The power measured by the satellite is low (5.0 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
2,016ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
5days
2 Jun 2024 – 6 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Jun
2024
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
6MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jun6 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

4

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
53km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.3 mm on 12 Jun.

This area had burned before

34% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 677 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Izium Ізюмський район 17,029 inhabitants · 15.2 km from the town where it started
    2,012 ha reached on 4 Jun
    1.0 %

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

  • Coniferous forest57 %
  • Mixed forest32 %
  • Other natural land11 %

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)
2 Jun 30.3 °C 27 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Jun 30.0 °C 36 % 40 km/h 0.6 mm High 24
4 Jun 30.3 °C 37 % 33 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 21
5 Jun 28.3 °C 45 % 53 km/h 9.8 mm Low 6
6 Jun 28.4 °C 37 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
7 Jun after 27.4 °C 41 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 20
8 Jun after 27.3 °C 40 % 25 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 15
9 Jun after 27.2 °C 42 % 21 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 15
10 Jun after 31.6 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
11 Jun after 32.4 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
12 Jun after 30.2 °C 43 % 43 km/h 9.3 mm Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 May 2024
After · 13 Jun 2024

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 6 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
311234567891011121314
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 · 2Every 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?
Copernicus dates it between 2 June 2024 and 6 June 2024: 5 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,016 hectares (20.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Izium (2,012 ha, 1.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.2 km of Izium. 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 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 53 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.

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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.