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Lenine fire, 22 June 2024 Ленінський район · Lenine

Out · last detection 22 Jun 2024, 11:28 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2024 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 415 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 16th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 397 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

Burnt area
415ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
22 Jun 2024 – 22 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jun
2024
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 31 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
137MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun22 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

22

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

The weather it burned in

26°high
33km/h · peak gust
48%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 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. Lenine Ленінський район 60,327 inhabitants · 26.8 km from the town where it started
    414 ha reached on 22 Jun
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land100 %

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)
22 Jun 25.9 °C 48 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
23 Jun after 28.7 °C 48 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
24 Jun after 29.1 °C 58 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
25 Jun after 25.5 °C 56 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
26 Jun after 24.2 °C 41 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
27 Jun after 26.7 °C 54 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
28 Jun after 27.0 °C 48 % 30 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 18
29 Jun after 27.8 °C 46 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
30 Jun after 29.5 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Jul after 31.5 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Jul after 32.7 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2024
After · 29 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 20 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1024 µg/m³
Optical depth0.31
202122232425
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 · 11Every 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 Lenine fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 June 2024 and 22 June 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 415 hectares (4.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Lenine (414 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 26.8 km of Lenine. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.9 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 17, class Moderate.
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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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.