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Kakhovka fire, 1 July 2024 Каховський район · Kakhovka

Out · last measured on 1 Jul 2024

The fire started on 1 July 2024 in Kakhovka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 460 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 231th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1102 with a page). Number 348 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
460ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
1 Jul 2024 – 1 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2024
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

34°high
20km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Kakhovka Каховський район 39.0 km from the centre where it started
    460 ha reached on 24 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

  • Agricultural areas90 %
  • Other natural land9.8 %

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)
1 Jul 33.6 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
2 Jul after 34.5 °C 27 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Jul after 33.9 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
4 Jul after 32.3 °C 37 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 38
5 Jul after 32.7 °C 41 % 32 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 41
6 Jul after 29.7 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
7 Jul after 31.6 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Jul after 35.4 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
9 Jul after 36.7 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 46
10 Jul after 36.5 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
11 Jul after 36.7 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 34.1, a minimum humidity of 28% and 13 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 84.

FWI at the start 34.1
Minimum humidity 28 %
Days without rain 13
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Bilozerka fire, August 2024
216 ha 3 days FWI 34.2 Min. humidity 28 % 24 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

3 days
median duration
232 ha
median area
10 %
went past 1,000 ha
3.2 mm
rain at the end (median; 65 of 84 had it)

It was 2.0 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 1 day, against 3 days.

Only 20 of its 84 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 19 of 84, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.2 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
20km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 1 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 65 of 84, with a median of 3.2 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2022.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 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 30 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth0.53
29 Jun1 Jul3 Jul
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Kakhovka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 July 2024 and 1 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 460 hectares (4.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Kakhovka (460 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Kakhovka and came within 39.0 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 33.6 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 20 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 84. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 232 ha; 10 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 20 of its 84 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 19 of 84, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.2 mm.

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 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.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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.