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Narodychi fire, 22 March 2022 Народицький район · Narodychi

Out · last detection 29 Mar 2022, 11:31 UTC

The fire started on 22 March 2022 in Narodychi, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,204 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 17th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 27 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

The power measured by the satellite is low (29.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
1,204ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
8days
22 Mar 2022 – 29 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Mar
2022
Heat detections
46
in a single hotspot: 30 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
78MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Mar29 Mar
29 Mar 2022

How it evolved, day by day

23 Mar 2022 · 17 MW · 7 24 Mar 2022 · 115 MW · 9 28 Mar 2022 · 162 MW · 20 29 Mar 2022 · 19 MW · 10
23 Mar 24 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar

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

The weather it burned in

16°high
69km/h · peak gust
33%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.6 mm on 31 Mar.

This area had burned before

42% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 511 ha in 2020.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.8% of the area of London (12 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

  1. Narodychi Народицький район 9,501 inhabitants · 13.0 km from the centre where it started
    1,202 ha reached on 23 Mar
    1.1 %

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 forest42 %
  • Agricultural areas38 %
  • Other natural land14 %
  • Coniferous forest5.6 %

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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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)
22 Mar 16.0 °C 37 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
23 Mar 15.9 °C 34 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
24 Mar 7.4 °C 48 % 57 km/h 3.1 mm Very low 1
25 Mar 10.3 °C 45 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
26 Mar 13.0 °C 51 % 69 km/h 1.6 mm Very low 2
27 Mar 4.6 °C 33 % 67 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
28 Mar 14.8 °C 35 % 66 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
29 Mar 13.3 °C 49 % 53 km/h 0.2 mm Low 7
30 Mar after 10.0 °C 53 % 30 km/h 0.3 mm Very low 4
31 Mar after 9.8 °C 76 % 34 km/h 5.6 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Mar 2022
After · 5 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 26 March 2022 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1026 µg/m³
2021222324252627282930311
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 · 46Every 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 22 March 2022 and 29 March 2022: 8 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,204 hectares (12.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Narodychi (1,202 ha, 1.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Narodychi and came within 13.0 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 16.0 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 69 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 46 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.