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Polohy fire, 16 June 2024 Пологівський район · Polohy, Orikhiv

Out · last measured on 17 Jun 2024

The fire started on 16 June 2024 in Polohy, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 199 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 203th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 966 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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
199ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
16 Jun 2024 – 17 Jun 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
16 Jun
2024
Danger at start
0
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

25°high
40km/h · peak gust
67%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Polohy Пологівський район 39,115 inhabitants · 19.8 km from the town where it started
    135 ha
    0.1 %
  2. Orikhiv Оріхівський район 44,686 inhabitants · 38.1 km from the town
    64 ha
    0.0 %

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 land52 %
  • Agricultural areas45 %
  • Other land cover1.5 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %

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 Jun 23.2 °C 79 % 40 km/h 9.1 mm Very low 0
17 Jun 25.2 °C 67 % 30 km/h 7.9 mm Very low 0
18 Jun after 30.1 °C 39 % 25 km/h 0.4 mm Very low 4
19 Jun after 30.9 °C 38 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
20 Jun after 33.6 °C 28 % 55 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
21 Jun after 26.1 °C 36 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
22 Jun after 27.8 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jun after 30.5 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
24 Jun after 28.6 °C 40 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
25 Jun after 25.4 °C 41 % 42 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
26 Jun after 26.5 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
27 Jun after 27.7 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jun 2024
After · 24 Jun 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 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.49
14151617181920
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 Polohy fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 June 2024 and 17 June 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 199 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Polohy (135 ha, 0.1 %); Orikhiv (64 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 19.8 km of Polohy. 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 25.2 °C, humidity dropped to 67 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
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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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.