Pyriatyn fire, September 2024 Пирятинський район · Pyriatyn, Lubny, Chornukhy
The fire started on 2 September 2024 in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 445 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 10th largest in Poltava Oblast since 2016 (of 45 with a page). Number 364 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
The power measured by the satellite is low (19.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
Compare with…
- Burnt area
- 445ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 6days
- 2 Sept 2024 – 7 Sept 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- districts
- Started on
- 2 Sept
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 20 MW
- Danger at start
- 44
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 12MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 13 Sept.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
-
415 ha0.5 %
-
19 ha reached on 6 Sept0.0 %
-
9 ha0.0 %
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 land76 %
- Mixed forest22 %
- Artificial surfaces1.4 %
- Agricultural areas0.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept | 31.1 °C | 26 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Sept | 27.3 °C | 36 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 4 Sept | 29.1 °C | 21 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 5 Sept | 28.7 °C | 28 % | 48 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 46 |
| 6 Sept | 26.7 °C | 25 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 7 Sept | 26.0 °C | 24 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 8 Sept after | 26.2 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 9 Sept after | 23.6 °C | 32 % | 37 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 37 |
| 10 Sept after | 24.7 °C | 46 % | 30 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 27 |
| 11 Sept after | 27.5 °C | 47 % | 25 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 24 |
| 12 Sept after | 28.5 °C | 53 % | 37 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 27 |
| 13 Sept after | 27.1 °C | 50 % | 45 km/h | 1.3 mm | Moderate 17 |
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 3 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.3 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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 259 haHrebinka Гребінківський районMarch 2025 · 1 day · 8 km away
- 2,346 haChornukhy Чорнухинський районMarch 2025 · 2 days · 14 km away
- 195 haOrzhytsia Оржицький район9 September 2024 · 2 days · 32 km away
- 677 haOrzhytsia Оржицький район15 September 2024 · 7 days · 35 km away
- 217 haOrzhytsia Оржицький район26 March 2022 · 1 day · 35 km away
- 1,388 haOrzhytsia Оржицький район27 March 2021 · 4 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Pyriatyn fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 September 2024 to 7 September 2024 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 September 2024 to 4 September 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 445 hectares (4.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Pyriatyn (415 ha, 0.5 %); Lubny (19 ha, 0.0 %); Chornukhy (9 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 16.2 km of the centre of Chornukhy, the closest of the areas it touched. 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.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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.
Report an error
How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 2 September 2024 to 4 September 2024. 4 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.
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.