How long did the Manhush fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 6 July 2024 and 8 July 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 292 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Manhush (262 ha, 0.2 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 33.1 km of Manhush. 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 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2024-07-06 → 2024-07-08

Manhush fire, 6 July 2024 Мангушський район · Manhush

Out · last detection 7 Jul 2024, 10:07 UTC

The fire started on 6 July 2024 in Manhush, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 292 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 259th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 607 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

The power measured by the satellite is low (24.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 292ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 3days; 6 Jul 2024 – 8 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 6 Jul; 2024
Heat detections: 5; in a single hotspot: 25 MW
Danger at start: 43; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 70MW; sum of detected power

Play back 7 Jul 2024

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jul8 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

36°high

44km/h · peak gust

31%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 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

Manhush Мангушський район 26,510 inhabitants · 33.1 km from the town where it started

262 ha reached on 7 Jul

0.2 %

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

Agricultural areas51 %
Other natural land49 %

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)
6 Jul	32.2 °C	33 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
7 Jul	33.2 °C	34 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
8 Jul	36.2 °C	31 %	32 km/h	0.4 mm	High 37
9 Jul after	34.7 °C	23 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
10 Jul after	32.6 °C	23 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
11 Jul after	33.0 °C	32 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
12 Jul after	33.3 °C	36 %	40 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 43
13 Jul after	31.2 °C	27 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
14 Jul after	33.0 °C	29 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
15 Jul after	35.0 °C	30 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
16 Jul after	35.3 °C	31 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
17 Jul after	36.3 °C	25 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
18 Jul after	35.5 °C	35 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 29 Jun 2024

After · 15 Jul 2024

Before After

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 11 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³

Days over the guideline2 days

PM1058 µg/m³

Optical depth0.38

WHO 15

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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 · 5Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Manhush fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 6 July 2024 and 8 July 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 292 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Manhush (262 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 33.1 km of Manhush. 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 36.2 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned