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Marinka fire, 20 March 2022 Мар'їнський район · Marinka, Yasynuvata

Out · last detection 25 Mar 2022, 11:04 UTC

The fire started on 20 March 2022 in Marinka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,371 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 22th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 23 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

Burnt area
1,371ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
6days
20 Mar 2022 – 25 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
20 Mar
2022
Heat detections
78
in a single hotspot: 124 MW
Danger at start
2
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
1.2GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

25 Mar 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Mar25 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

202425

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

The weather it burned in

12°high
40km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.6 mm on 27 Mar.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Marinka Мар'їнський район 90,434 inhabitants · 7.8 km from the town where it started
    1,268 ha reached on 20 Mar
    0.8 %
  2. Yasynuvata
    104 ha reached on 24 Mar
    0.1 %

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 areas95 %
  • Other natural land3.1 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %
  • Mixed forest0.7 %

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)
20 Mar 6.2 °C 18 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
21 Mar 11.9 °C 31 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
22 Mar 8.6 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
23 Mar 11.8 °C 15 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
24 Mar 11.8 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
25 Mar 10.5 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
26 Mar after 12.8 °C 28 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
27 Mar after 7.0 °C 48 % 68 km/h 4.6 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Mar 2022
After · 1 Apr 2022

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 23 March 2022 the air beside the fire reached 65 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 36: 2.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak65 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM1081 µg/m³
1819202122232425262728
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 · 78Every 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 Marinka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 20 March 2022 and 25 March 2022: 6 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,371 hectares (13.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Marinka (1,268 ha, 0.8 %); Yasynuvata (104 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 7.8 km of Marinka. 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 11.9 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 5, class 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

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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.