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Narodychi fire, May 2022 Народицький район · Poliske, Narodychi

Out · last detection 9 May 2022, 10:21 UTC

The fire started on 8 May 2022 in Narodychi, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,455 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 13th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 19 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.6 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
1,455ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
8 May 2022 – 8 May 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
8 May
2022
Heat detections
89
in a single hotspot: 17 MW
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index
Energy released
21MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 May8 May

How it evolved, day by day

9

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
70km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 18 May.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Poliske Поліський район 5,622 inhabitants · 15.0 km from the town
    977 ha reached on 10 May
    0.6 %
  2. Narodychi Народицький район 9,501 inhabitants · 26.4 km from the town where it started
    473 ha reached on 9 May
    0.4 %

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

  • Coniferous forest93 %
  • Mixed forest7.1 %

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)
8 May 21.1 °C 35 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
9 May after 16.6 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 14
10 May after 16.9 °C 23 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
11 May after 21.7 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
12 May after 29.9 °C 23 % 70 km/h 0.8 mm High 31
13 May after 20.8 °C 24 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 May after 18.8 °C 37 % 47 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
15 May after 16.9 °C 37 % 50 km/h 0.3 mm High 22
16 May after 18.2 °C 23 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 May after 17.7 °C 20 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 May after 12.9 °C 48 % 55 km/h 2.8 mm Low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 May 2022
After · 15 May 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.

Detections table · 89Every 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 8 May 2022 and 8 May 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,455 hectares (14.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Poliske (977 ha, 0.6 %); Narodychi (473 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.0 km of Poliske. 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 29.9 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.