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Shyroke fire, 23 July 2024 Широківський район · Shyroke

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2024, 00:03 UTC

The fire started on 23 July 2024 in Shyroke, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 929 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 6th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 134 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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Burnt area
929ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
23 Jul 2024 – 26 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
23 Jul
2024
Heat detections
25
in a single hotspot: 106 MW
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
245MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Jul26 Jul
24 Jul 2024

How it evolved, day by day

23 Jul 2024 · 480 MW · 20 24 Jul 2024 · 10 MW · 5
23 Jul 24 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
39km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 4 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.6% of the area of London (9.3 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Shyroke Широківський район 26,880 inhabitants · 11.8 km from the centre where it started
    931 ha reached on 23 Jul
    0.8 %

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

  • Agricultural areas94 %
  • Other natural land5.8 %

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)
23 Jul 31.1 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
24 Jul 30.6 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
25 Jul 29.7 °C 24 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
26 Jul 30.6 °C 25 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
27 Jul after 32.8 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Jul after 34.5 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
29 Jul after 29.2 °C 28 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
30 Jul after 25.1 °C 42 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Jul after 28.6 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.5 mm High 34
1 Aug after 31.4 °C 20 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
2 Aug after 32.1 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Aug after 31.3 °C 35 % 53 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 38
4 Aug after 30.4 °C 37 % 35 km/h 2.0 mm Moderate 19

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jul 2024
After · 2 Aug 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 25 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 69 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 34: 2.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak69 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1078 µg/m³
Optical depth0.77
212223242526272829
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 · 25Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Shyroke fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 23 July 2024 and 26 July 2024: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 929 hectares (9.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Shyroke (931 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Shyroke and came within 11.8 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 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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.

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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. 25 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.