How long did the Orikhiv fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 2 July 2024 and 9 July 2024: 8 days between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 704 hectares (7.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.

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 · 2024-07-02 → 2024-07-09

Orikhiv fire, 2 July 2024 Оріхівський район · Ukraine

Out · last detection 8 Jul 2024, 11:29 UTC

The fire started on 2 July 2024 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 704 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 19th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 195 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2093.

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Burnt area: 704ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 8days; 2 Jul 2024 – 9 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit: 0; districts
Started on: 2 Jul; 2024
Heat detections: 8; in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Average daily power: 8MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jul9 Jul

Play back 8 Jul 2024

How it evolved, day by day

2 Jul 3 Jul 7 Jul 8 Jul

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

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 115 ha in 2023.

98 ha Orikhiv fire, August 2023 215 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 0.4% of the area of London (7 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 burned

Agricultural areas53 %
Other natural land43 %
Artificial surfaces2.6 %
Mixed forest1.2 %

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

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Jun 2024

After · 16 Jul 2024

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 28 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak28 µg/m³

Days over the guideline2 days

PM1051 µg/m³

Optical depth0.64

WHO 15

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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 · 0Every 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 Orikhiv fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 2 July 2024 and 9 July 2024: 8 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 704 hectares (7.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
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 ›

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

27 October 2026 Start date: 30 June 2024 → 2 July 2024.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
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.

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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