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Nova Odesa fire, June 2023 Nova Odesa

Out · last detection 30 Jun 2023, 10:03 UTC

The fire started on 30 June 2023 in Nova Odesa, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 135 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 90th largest in Mykolaiv Oblast since 2016 (of 115 with a page). Number 352 in Ukraine in 2023, of 491.

The power measured by the satellite is low (18.1 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
135ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
30 Jun 2023 – 30 Jun 2023
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Jun
2023
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
21
High · FWI index
Energy released
18MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jun30 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

30

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

The weather it burned in

28°high
42km/h · peak gust
36%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.1 mm on 7 Jul.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Odesa where it started
    134 ha reached on 30 Jun
    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

  • Other natural land96 %
  • Agricultural areas4.4 %

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)
30 Jun 27.6 °C 36 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
1 Jul after 29.6 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Jul after 29.8 °C 33 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Jul after 29.1 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
4 Jul after 31.9 °C 33 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
5 Jul after 34.5 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
6 Jul after 36.2 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
7 Jul after 36.0 °C 26 % 44 km/h 4.1 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jun 2023
After · 7 Jul 2023

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 1 July 2023 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth1.00
282930123
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 · 1Every 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 Nova Odesa fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 30 June 2023 and 30 June 2023: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 135 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Odesa (134 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 36 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, 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.