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Lenine fire, 11 August 2023 Ленінський район · Ukraine

Out · last measured on 11 Aug 2023

The fire started on 11 August 2023 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 210 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 51th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 216 in Ukraine in 2023, of 491.

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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
210ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
11 Aug 2023 – 11 Aug 2023
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
11 Aug
2023
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

28°high
42km/h · peak gust
62%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 burned

  • Other natural land95 %
  • Agricultural areas5.3 %

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 Aug 28.5 °C 62 % 42 km/h 0.1 mm High 25
12 Aug after 27.4 °C 55 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
13 Aug after 28.7 °C 57 % 39 km/h 0.4 mm High 24
14 Aug after 29.5 °C 44 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Aug after 30.0 °C 43 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
16 Aug after 30.8 °C 42 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Aug after 31.0 °C 42 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
18 Aug after 29.4 °C 46 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
19 Aug after 32.2 °C 39 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
20 Aug after 34.1 °C 32 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Aug after 34.5 °C 30 % 32 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 · 4 Aug 2023
After · 18 Aug 2023

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 10 August 2023 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
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.52
91011121314
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 Lenine fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 11 August 2023 and 11 August 2023: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 210 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 62 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, 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.