The fire started on 12 September 2024 in Lutuhyne, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,563 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 38th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 59 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
Union of 3 EFFIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
12 Sept 2024 to 23 Sept 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 66 MW.
There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
Total radiative power on 15 September 2024; hotspots that day: 13.
Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 1.
This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
High of 30.3 °C and minimum humidity of 19% on 12 September 2024; gusts of 65 km/h on 16 September 2024.
These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-12 | 4 | 52 | 30.3 | 18.4 | 19 | 30.2 | 55.4 | 0.1 | 81.2 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-13 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 17.9 | 22 | 28.8 | 54.4 | 0 | 81.9 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 15.4 | 19 | 27.7 | 52.9 | 0 | 73.3 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-15 | 13 | 426 | 27.7 | 14.5 | 22 | 34.6 | 63.7 | 0 | 98.9 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-16 | 0 | 0 | 26.5 | 14.6 | 20 | 34.9 | 64.8 | 0 | 100.3 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-17 | 2 | 3 | 24.6 | 14.9 | 23 | 35.3 | 64.4 | 0 | 100.5 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-18 | 34 | 377 | 22.6 | 12.2 | 15 | 26.2 | 50.4 | 0 | 80 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 0 | 0 | 22.6 | 7.6 | 14 | 23 | 46.1 | 0 | 73.1 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-20 | 0 | 0 | 24.6 | 5.4 | 19 | 15.5 | 31.7 | 0 | 52.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9.5 | 29 | 15.5 | 31.3 | 0 | 47.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 10.6 | 24 | 11.2 | 21.6 | 0 | 36.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 26.1 | 10.5 | 28 | 18.4 | 34.6 | 0 | 51 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10.5 | 24 | 15.5 | 33.1 | 0 | 51.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-25 | 0 | 0 | 23.4 | 6.5 | 23 | 16 | 32.8 | 0 | 52.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 25.2 | 9.6 | 28 | 24 | 45.7 | 0 | 65.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 23.5 | 10.1 | 38 | 23.1 | 43.6 | 0 | 53.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 24.8 | 12.7 | 28 | 22.3 | 43.2 | 0 | 57.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-29 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 9.9 | 19 | 31.7 | 56.9 | 0 | 86 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2024-09-30 | 0 | 0 | 25.6 | 13.2 | 24 | 29.4 | 55.4 | 0 | 76.9 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2024-10-01 | 0 | 0 | 24.4 | 12.2 | 15 | 33 | 62.6 | 0 | 93.6 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2024-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 | 8.1 | 18 | 18.1 | 36 | 0 | 58 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-10-03 | 0 | 0 | 23.9 | 5.9 | 16 | 9.5 | 19.1 | 0 | 40.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 187 ha in 2023.
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
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.
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
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)
Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine Strong wind: 20 % of the area in Ukraine
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept | 30.3 °C | 19 % | 55 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very extreme 81 |
| 13 Sept | 28.6 °C | 22 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 82 |
| 14 Sept | 30.0 °C | 19 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 73 |
| 15 Sept | 27.7 °C | 22 % | 64 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 99 |
| 16 Sept | 26.5 °C | 20 % | 65 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 100 |
| 17 Sept | 24.6 °C | 23 % | 64 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 100 |
| 18 Sept | 22.6 °C | 15 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 80 |
| 19 Sept | 22.6 °C | 14 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 73 |
| 20 Sept | 24.6 °C | 19 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 21 Sept | 24.0 °C | 29 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 22 Sept | 26.0 °C | 24 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 23 Sept | 26.1 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 24 Sept after | 24.0 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 25 Sept after | 23.4 °C | 23 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 26 Sept after | 25.2 °C | 28 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 27 Sept after | 23.5 °C | 38 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 28 Sept after | 24.8 °C | 28 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 29 Sept after | 25.7 °C | 19 % | 57 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 86 |
| 30 Sept after | 25.6 °C | 24 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 77 |
| 1 Oct after | 24.4 °C | 15 % | 63 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 94 |
| 2 Oct after | 23.7 °C | 18 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 3 Oct after | 23.9 °C | 16 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
It started with an FWI of 81.2, a minimum humidity of 19% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 41.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 2 Sept.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 11 Oct.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.0 mm on 10 Sept.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.3 mm on 10 Sept.
It was 8.0 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 12 days, against 2 days.
Only 4 of its 41 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 10 of 41, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.3 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
It was considered over on 23 Sept, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 31 of 41, with a median of 2.3 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
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.
On 11 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 18 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)
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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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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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.
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.