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Kostiantynivka fire, 1 October 2024 Костянтинівський район · Kostiantynivka, Dobropillia

Out · last detection 1 Oct 2024, 23:49 UTC

The fire started on 1 October 2024 in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 486 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 114th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 329 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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Burnt area
486ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
1 Oct 2024 – 2 Oct 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
1 Oct
2024
Heat detections
35
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
75
Very extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
577MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Oct2 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

1 Oct 2024 · 577 MW · 35

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
55km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 mm on 7 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Kostiantynivka Костянтинівський район 18.7 km from the centre where it started
    378 ha reached on 1 Oct
    0.2 %
  2. Dobropillia Добропільський район 15,695 inhabitants · 40.6 km from the centre
    107 ha reached on 1 Oct
    0.1 %

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

  • Other natural land55 %
  • Agricultural areas40 %
  • Mixed forest5.2 %

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 29 % of the area in Ukraine Strong wind: 20 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
1 Oct 24.8 °C 18 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 75
2 Oct 24.1 °C 18 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
3 Oct after 23.9 °C 18 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
4 Oct after 24.3 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
5 Oct after 25.7 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
6 Oct after 27.4 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
7 Oct after 25.2 °C 37 % 41 km/h 2.5 mm Very high 48

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 75.1, a minimum humidity of 18% and 17 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2020: 36.

FWI at the start 75.1
Minimum humidity 18 %
Days without rain 17
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Popasna fire, August 2024
192 ha 1 day FWI 74.6 Min. humidity 18 % 67 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.3 mm on 10 Sept.

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What happened to them

2 days
median duration
170 ha
median area
11 %
went past 1,000 ha
5.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 21 of 36 had it)

It was 2.9 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 2 days, against 2 days.

Only 9 of its 36 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 15 of 36, 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 5.7 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

2.5 mmfirst rain
7 Oct5 days after it ended
55km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 2 Oct, and on 7 Oct 2.5 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 21 of 36, with a median of 5.7 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 2020.
  • 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 Sept 2024
After · 9 Oct 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 5 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 44 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 28: 1.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak44 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM10101 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
29 Sept1 Oct3 Oct5 Oct
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 · 35Every 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 Kostiantynivka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 October 2024 and 2 October 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 486 hectares (4.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kostiantynivka (378 ha, 0.2 %); Dobropillia (107 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Kostiantynivka and came within 18.7 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 24.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 75, class Very extreme.
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 2020 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 36. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 170 ha; 11 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 9 of its 36 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 15 of 36, 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 5.7 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. 35 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.