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Narodychi fire, 2 April 2020 Народицький район · Narodychi

Out · last detection 5 Apr 2020, 10:46 UTC

The fire started on 2 April 2020 in Narodychi, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,054 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 20th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 40 in Ukraine in 2020, of 132.

Burnt area
1,054ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
6days
2 Apr 2020 – 7 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Apr
2020
Heat detections
70
in a single hotspot: 155 MW
Danger at start
10
Low · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

5 Apr 2020
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Apr7 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

2345

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

The weather it burned in

20°high
55km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.7 mm on 14 Apr.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Narodychi Народицький район 9,501 inhabitants · 37.2 km from the town where it started
    1,050 ha reached on 2 Apr
    1.0 %

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

  • Mixed forest39 %
  • Other natural land25 %
  • Coniferous forest19 %
  • Agricultural areas16 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.1 %

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)
2 Apr 11.3 °C 28 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
3 Apr 14.6 °C 22 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
4 Apr 11.2 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
5 Apr 10.7 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
6 Apr 13.6 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
7 Apr 17.4 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
8 Apr after 18.7 °C 25 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
9 Apr after 19.8 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
10 Apr after 11.8 °C 24 % 55 km/h 0.4 mm High 22
11 Apr after 12.1 °C 22 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
12 Apr after 12.2 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
13 Apr after 21.5 °C 23 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
14 Apr after 13.3 °C 38 % 44 km/h 4.7 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Mar 2020
After · 14 Apr 2020

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 3 April 2020 the air beside the fire reached 28 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak28 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1036 µg/m³
3112345678910111213
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 · 70Every 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 Narodychi fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 April 2020 and 7 April 2020: 6 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,054 hectares (10.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Narodychi (1,050 ha, 1.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 37.2 km of Narodychi. 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 19.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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.

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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.