How long did the Popasna fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 1 October 2024 and 1 October 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 167 hectares (1.7 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 · 2024-10-01 → 2024-10-01

Popasna fire, 1 October 2024 Попаснянський район · Ukraine

Out · last detection 1 Oct 2024, 09:55 UTC

The fire started on 1 October 2024 in Popasna, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 167 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 533th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 1195 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2093.

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Burnt area: 167ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 1 Oct 2024 – 1 Oct 2024
Municipalities hit: 0; districts
Started on: 1 Oct; 2024
Heat detections: 1; in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Average daily power: 26MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Oct1 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

1 Oct 2024 · 26 MW · 1

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

This area had burned before

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

What burned

Agricultural areas95 %
Other natural land5.4 %

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 · 24 Sept 2024

After · 8 Oct 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 4 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 41 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak41 µg/m³

Days over the guideline4 days

PM1091 µg/m³

Optical depth0.18

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 Popasna fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 1 October 2024 and 1 October 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 167 hectares (1.7 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 ›

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NASA FIRMS ↗
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History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

27 October 2026 Last day with fire: 2 October 2024 → 1 October 2024.
27 October 2026 Start date: 30 September 2024 → 1 October 2024.

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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.

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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