Lenine fire, 14 August 2024 Ленінський район · Lenine
The fire started on 14 August 2024 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 139 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 78th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 1444 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
The power measured by the satellite is low (4.8 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 139ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 14 Aug 2024 – 16 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 14 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 1
- in a single hotspot: 5 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 5MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
16 Aug 2024 · 5 MW · 1
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 64 ha in 2023.
What happened to each town
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40 ha0.0 %
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 land99 %
- Mixed forest1.4 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug | 24.0 °C | 43 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 32 |
| 15 Aug | 26.2 °C | 39 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 16 Aug | 26.5 °C | 44 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 17 Aug after | 27.6 °C | 42 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 18 Aug after | 27.8 °C | 39 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 19 Aug after | 28.8 °C | 44 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 20 Aug after | 28.6 °C | 50 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 21 Aug after | 28.6 °C | 56 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 22 Aug after | 29.2 °C | 58 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Aug after | 29.1 °C | 53 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 24 Aug after | 29.0 °C | 59 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Aug after | 27.9 °C | 44 % | 60 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Aug after | 26.7 °C | 44 % | 62 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 18 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 280 haLenine Ленінський район30 June 2026 · 8 days · 18 km away
- 436 haLenine Ленінський район7 August 2025 · 1 day · 19 km away
- 709 haLenine Ленінський район17 July 2025 · 3 days · 22 km away
- 294 haLenine Ленінський районNovember 2023 · 1 day · 22 km away
- 859 haLenine Ленінський район20 September 2025 · 7 days · 26 km away
- 306 haLenine Ленінський район30 June 2026 · 1 day · 30 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Lenine fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 14 August 2024 and 16 August 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 139 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Lenine (40 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Lenine and came within 77.8 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 26.5 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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 ›
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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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection 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.
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.