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Lenine fire, 1 July 2024 Ленінський район · Lenine

Out · last detection 2 Jul 2024, 11:41 UTC

The fire started on 1 July 2024 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,612 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the largest fire in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 22 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

Burnt area
2,612ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
1 Jul 2024 – 2 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2024
Heat detections
44
in a single hotspot: 40 MW
Danger at start
38
High · FWI index
Energy released
549MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jul2 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

2

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
40km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 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 · 21.9 km from the town where it started
    2,552 ha reached on 2 Jul
    0.9 %

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 land99 %
  • Agricultural areas0.8 %
  • Mixed forest0.6 %

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 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
2 Jul 34.7 °C 14 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Jul after 29.2 °C 41 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
4 Jul after 31.5 °C 42 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
5 Jul after 32.1 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
6 Jul after 30.5 °C 36 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Jul after 32.0 °C 40 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Jul after 36.7 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Jul after 37.0 °C 25 % 56 km/h 0.3 mm Extreme 51
10 Jul after 35.6 °C 23 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
11 Jul after 33.1 °C 27 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
12 Jul after 36.3 °C 24 % 52 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 53

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jun 2024
After · 9 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 29 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.51
293012345
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 · 44Every 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 1 July 2024 and 2 July 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 2,612 hectares (26.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Lenine (2,552 ha, 0.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 21.9 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 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very 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

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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.