Orikhiv fire, 4 July 2024 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv
The fire started on 4 July 2024 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 177 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 248th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 1113 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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- Burnt area
- 177ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 4 Jul 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 4 Jul
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Average daily power
- 43MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
4 Jul 2024 · 43 MW · 6
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
17% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 30 ha in 2023.
What happened to each town
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177 ha0.1 %
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
- Other natural land33 %
- Agricultural areas33 %
- Mixed forest19 %
- Artificial surfaces16 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 7.5 hectares of built-up land and about 300 residents (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 974 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район7 July 2025 · 8 days · 18 km away
- 1,057 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район14 August 2025 · 2 days · 21 km away
- 1,343 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район2 July 2024 · 3 days · 26 km away
- 1,115 haZaporizhia Запорізький районSeptember 2023 · 5 days · 29 km away
- 985 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район15 July 2024 · 1 day · 30 km away
- 1,900 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район22 July 2024 · 5 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Orikhiv fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 4 July 2024 and 4 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 177 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Orikhiv (177 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 18.8 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.
- 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 28 June 2024 → 4 July 2024.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.