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Kostiantynivka fire, 11 June 2024 Костянтинівський район · Kostiantynivka

Out · last measured on 13 Jun 2024

The fire started on 11 June 2024 in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 660 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 70th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 212 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
660ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
11 Jun 2024 – 13 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
11 Jun
2024
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
35km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.0 mm on 15 Jun.

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 (6.6 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. Kostiantynivka Костянтинівський район 13.3 km from the centre where it started
    658 ha
    0.4 %

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 areas91 %
  • Mixed forest5.1 %
  • Other natural land4.1 %

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)
11 Jun 31.9 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
12 Jun 30.5 °C 43 % 34 km/h 0.6 mm High 24
13 Jun 27.1 °C 44 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
14 Jun after 28.9 °C 37 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Jun after 30.5 °C 37 % 40 km/h 4.0 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jun 2024
After · 20 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 9 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1037 µg/m³
Optical depth0.40
910111213141516
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 Kostiantynivka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 11 June 2024 and 13 June 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 660 hectares (6.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Kostiantynivka (658 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Kostiantynivka and came within 13.3 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 31.9 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night 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.