How long did the Narodychi fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 April 2020 to 20 April 2020 (18 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 April 2020 to 13 April 2020.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 45,987 hectares (459.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 5 municipalities: Poliske (25,192 ha, 15 %); Narodychi (18,424 ha, 17 %); Ivankiv (2,142 ha, 0.6 %); Ovruch (253 ha, 0.1 %); Korosten (1 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire reached the centre of Poliske: the point marking it was inside the burnt area or less than 500 metres from it. That does not mean houses burned.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 23.4 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 82 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2020-04-03 → 2020-04-20

Narodychi fire, 3 April 2020 Народицький район · Poliske, Narodychi, Ivankiv

Out · last detection 21 Apr 2020, 10:46 UTC

The fire started on 3 April 2020 in Narodychi, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 45,987 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 5 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). The largest in Ukraine in 2020, of 132.

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Burnt area: 45,987ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 18days; 3 Apr 2020 – 20 Apr 2020
Municipalities hit: 5; districts
Started on: 3 Apr; 2020
Heat detections: 2,471; in a single hotspot: 275 MW
Danger at start: 14; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 2.5GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Apr20 Apr

Play back 21 Apr 2020

How it evolved, day by day

3 Apr 6 Apr 8 Apr 9 Apr 12 Apr 17 Apr 20 Apr

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

The weather it burned in

23°high

82km/h · peak gust

6%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 25 Apr.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 29% of the area of London (460 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Poliske Поліський район 5,622 inhabitants · fire reached the centre

25,192 ha reached on 4 Apr

15 %
Narodychi Народицький район 9,501 inhabitants · 1.9 km from the centre where it started

18,424 ha reached on 3 Apr

17 %
Ivankiv Іванківський район 29,441 inhabitants · 25.1 km from the centre

2,142 ha reached on 18 Apr

0.6 %
Ovruch Овруцький район 55,608 inhabitants · 28.4 km from the centre

253 ha reached on 3 Apr

0.1 %
Korosten Коростенський район 26,183 inhabitants · 49.1 km from the centre

1 ha reached on 3 Apr

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

Mixed forest37 %
Coniferous forest28 %
Other natural land16 %
Agricultural areas15 %
Broadleaved forest4.4 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020

Built-up area7.3 ha

Residents≈ 400

Inside the perimeter there were about 7.3 hectares of built-up land and about 400 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
3 Apr	15.3 °C	18 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
4 Apr	11.3 °C	17 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
5 Apr	11.9 °C	20 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
6 Apr	15.4 °C	20 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
7 Apr	19.5 °C	6 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
8 Apr	18.9 °C	23 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 21
9 Apr	22.0 °C	13 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
10 Apr	11.8 °C	23 %	53 km/h	0.5 mm	High 24
11 Apr	12.4 °C	17 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
12 Apr	13.9 °C	7 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
13 Apr	23.4 °C	16 %	59 km/h	0.6 mm	High 30
14 Apr	11.5 °C	34 %	42 km/h	2.2 mm	Very low 4
15 Apr	7.3 °C	37 %	59 km/h	1.0 mm	Low 8
16 Apr	17.6 °C	26 %	82 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
17 Apr	12.1 °C	21 %	58 km/h	0.3 mm	High 22
18 Apr	10.4 °C	25 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
19 Apr	11.7 °C	26 %	48 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 18
20 Apr	9.3 °C	34 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
21 Apr after	10.5 °C	31 %	42 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 18
22 Apr after	16.6 °C	20 %	47 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
23 Apr after	18.9 °C	18 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
24 Apr after	19.9 °C	18 %	56 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
25 Apr after	19.8 °C	26 %	37 km/h	1.6 mm	Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 27 Mar 2020

After · 27 Apr 2020

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.

Detections table · 2,471Every 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 Narodychi fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 April 2020 to 20 April 2020 (18 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 April 2020 to 13 April 2020.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 45,987 hectares (459.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 5 municipalities: Poliske (25,192 ha, 15 %); Narodychi (18,424 ha, 17 %); Ivankiv (2,142 ha, 0.6 %); Ovruch (253 ha, 0.1 %); Korosten (1 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire reached the centre of Poliske: the point marking it was inside the burnt area or less than 500 metres from it. That does not mean houses burned.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 23.4 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 82 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 13 April 2020 → 20 April 2020.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 3 April 2020 to 13 April 2020. 2,471 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.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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