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Rivne fire, 15 March 2022 Рівненський район · Rivne

Out · last measured on 15 Mar 2022

The fire started on 15 March 2022 in Rivne, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 150 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 121th largest in Rivne Oblast since 2016 (of 167 with a page). Number 360 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

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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
150ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Mar 2022 – 15 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
15 Mar
2022
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

12°high
18km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 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. Rivne Рівненський район 89,776 inhabitants · 36.4 km from the centre where it started
    150 ha
    0.1 %

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 land76 %
  • Agricultural areas16 %
  • Mixed forest8.0 %

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)
15 Mar 12.3 °C 32 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
16 Mar after 6.9 °C 50 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
17 Mar after 4.1 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
18 Mar after 4.8 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
19 Mar after 6.4 °C 28 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
20 Mar after 9.9 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
21 Mar after 13.0 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
22 Mar after 17.5 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
23 Mar after 17.9 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
24 Mar after 10.0 °C 35 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
25 Mar after 11.8 °C 37 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Mar 2022
After · 22 Mar 2022

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 March 2022 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak23 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1028 µg/m³
131415161718
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 Rivne fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 March 2022 and 15 March 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 150 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Rivne (150 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Rivne and came within 36.4 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.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 12.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 18 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, 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.

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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.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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.