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Nova Odesa fire, July 2024 Nova Odesa

Out · last measured on 16 Jul 2024

The fire started on 16 July 2024 in Nova Odesa, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 535 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Mykolaiv Oblast since 2016 (of 115 with a page). Number 291 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
535ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
16 Jul 2024 – 16 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
16 Jul
2024
Danger at start
47
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

39°high
40km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.3 mm on 22 Jul.

This area had burned before

9% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 47 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5.4 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. Nova Odesa where it started
    533 ha
    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

  • Other natural land96 %
  • Agricultural areas4.2 %

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)
16 Jul 38.9 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 Jul after 38.6 °C 23 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Jul after 38.5 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
19 Jul after 34.2 °C 37 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Jul after 32.8 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
21 Jul after 33.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Jul after 30.6 °C 45 % 27 km/h 8.3 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2024
After · 23 Jul 2024

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 15 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1024 µg/m³
Optical depth0.59
141516171819
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Nova Odesa fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2024 and 16 July 2024: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 535 hectares (5.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Odesa (533 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.

Emergency number: 101 · 112

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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.

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.