How long did the Shostka fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 September 2024 to 19 September 2024 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 September 2024 to 12 September 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 202 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Shostka (175 ha, 0.1 %); Novhorod-Siverskyi (27 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire came within 14.6 km of the centre of Novhorod-Siverskyi, 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 29.6 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2024-09-10 → 2024-09-19

Shostka fire, September 2024 Шосткинський район · Shostka, Novhorod-Siverskyi

Out · last detection 19 Sept 2024, 00:33 UTC

The fire started on 10 September 2024 in Shostka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 202 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 59th largest in Sumy Oblast since 2016 (of 130 with a page). Number 948 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2093.

The power measured by the satellite is low (4.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area: 202ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 10days; 10 Sept 2024 – 19 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 10 Sept; 2024
Heat detections: 16; in a single hotspot: 4 MW
Danger at start: 30; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 3MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Sept19 Sept

Play back 19 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

10 Sept 11 Sept 14 Sept 15 Sept 16 Sept 17 Sept 19 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

30°high

38km/h · peak gust

30%lowest humidity

It had gone 27 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

Shostka Шосткинський район 17.3 km from the centre where it started

175 ha reached on 10 Sept

0.1 %
Novhorod-Siverskyi Новгород-Сіверський 12,647 inhabitants · 14.6 km from the centre

27 ha reached on 14 Sept

0.0 %

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 land50 %
Mixed forest37 %
Agricultural areas10 %
Coniferous forest2.5 %

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)
10 Sept	26.2 °C	30 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
11 Sept	25.7 °C	52 %	35 km/h	0.2 mm	High 24
12 Sept	29.6 °C	35 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
13 Sept	26.4 °C	34 %	52 km/h	0.1 mm	High 38
14 Sept	28.1 °C	26 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
15 Sept	28.1 °C	18 %	52 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 50
16 Sept	27.5 °C	25 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
17 Sept	26.3 °C	25 %	42 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 43
18 Sept	22.7 °C	30 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
19 Sept	24.2 °C	22 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
20 Sept after	23.1 °C	42 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
21 Sept after	24.2 °C	37 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
22 Sept after	22.6 °C	40 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 3 Sept 2024

After · 26 Sept 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 12 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³

Days over the guideline1 day

PM1039 µg/m³

Optical depth0.33

WHO 15

8910111213141516171819202122

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)

Detections table · 16Every 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 Shostka fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 September 2024 to 19 September 2024 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 September 2024 to 12 September 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 202 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Shostka (175 ha, 0.1 %); Novhorod-Siverskyi (27 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire came within 14.6 km of the centre of Novhorod-Siverskyi, 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 29.6 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 September 2024 to 12 September 2024. 16 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

Where it burned