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Lutuhyne fire, 29 February 2024 Лутугинський район · Lutuhyne, Antratsyt

Out · last measured on 29 Feb 2024

The fire started on 29 February 2024 in Lutuhyne, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 275 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 327th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 651 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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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
275ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
29 Feb 2024 – 29 Feb 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
29 Feb
2024
Danger at start
3
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

8°high
37km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 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. Lutuhyne Лутугинський район 65,908 inhabitants · 22.1 km from the centre where it started
    267 ha
    0.2 %
  2. Antratsyt Антрацитівський район 30,070 inhabitants · 5.3 km from the centre
    7 ha
    0.0 %

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 land91 %
  • Agricultural areas8.5 %

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)
29 Feb 8.5 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
1 Mar after 6.1 °C 52 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
2 Mar after 6.4 °C 45 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
3 Mar after 4.6 °C 51 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
4 Mar after 6.4 °C 50 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
5 Mar after 5.7 °C 56 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
6 Mar after 2.2 °C 66 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
7 Mar after 0.2 °C 57 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
8 Mar after 0.1 °C 57 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
9 Mar after 4.8 °C 49 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
10 Mar after 4.8 °C 53 % 26 km/h 0.7 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Feb 2024
After · 7 Mar 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 1 March 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
PM1016 µg/m³
Optical depth0.36
272829123
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 Lutuhyne fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 February 2024 and 29 February 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 275 hectares (2.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lutuhyne (267 ha, 0.2 %); Antratsyt (7 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 5.3 km of the centre of Antratsyt, the closest of the areas it touched. 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 8.5 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 3, class Very low.
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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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.