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Izium fire, 29 June 2024 Ізюмський район · Izium

Out · last detection 29 Jun 2024, 10:58 UTC

The fire started on 29 June 2024 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 474 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 61th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 339 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

The power measured by the satellite is low (4.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
474ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
29 Jun 2024 – 1 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
29 Jun
2024
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 5 MW
Danger at start
21
High · FWI index
Average daily power
5MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jun1 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

29 Jun 2024 · 5 MW · 1

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
31km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

49% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 230 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Izium Ізюмський район 17,029 inhabitants · 22.8 km from the centre where it started
    473 ha reached on 29 Jun
    0.2 %

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

  • Mixed forest50 %
  • Coniferous forest44 %
  • Other natural land5.3 %

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

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable 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

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)
29 Jun 29.4 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
30 Jun 31.7 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
1 Jul 33.0 °C 28 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Jul after 34.5 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Jul after 35.8 °C 16 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Jul after 34.8 °C 19 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
5 Jul after 36.7 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
6 Jul after 29.4 °C 35 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
7 Jul after 30.7 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Jul after 34.7 °C 34 % 29 km/h 0.1 mm High 31
9 Jul after 34.0 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.8 mm High 31
10 Jul after 34.8 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jul after 34.6 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jun 2024
After · 8 Jul 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 4 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1076 µg/m³
Optical depth0.30
272829301234
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 · 1Every 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 29 June 2024 and 1 July 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 474 hectares (4.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Izium (473 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Izium and came within 22.8 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 28 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection 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 2025, 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.