Burned area
satellite only256ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 17 September 2024
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UA · Ukraine · –
Starobesheve fire, 29 March 2024 Starobesheve, Volnovakha, Boikivske
Out · last detection 3 Apr 2024, 23:44 UTC
The fire started on 29 March 2024 in Starobesheve, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 256 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 304th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 707 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only7days
29 Mar 2024 to 4 Apr 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 3 Apr 2024, 23:44 UTC
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Start
satellite only29 Mar 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 29 Mar 2024
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Hotspots
satellite only44
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 51 MW.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 29 Mar 2024 – 4 Apr 2024
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The worst day
satellite only1,040MW
Total radiative power on 29 March 2024; hotspots that day: 43.
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- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 29 Mar 2024
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model7.3FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 10.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 29 Mar 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model21.9°C · 33% RH
High of 21.9 °C and minimum humidity of 33% on 1 April 2024; gusts of 49 km/h on 29 March 2024.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 29 Mar 2024 – 4 Apr 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 256 ha
- Dates
- 29 Mar 2024 – 4 Apr 2024
- Name
- Starobesheve
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/starobesheve-2024-03-2?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire starobesheve-2024-03-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-29 | 43 | 1,040 | 16.9 | 9.3 | 58 | 23.5 | 48.6 | 4.8 | 7.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-03-30 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 8.1 | 43 | 25.9 | 45 | 0 | 1.4 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 0 | 0 | 20.6 | 5.7 | 34 | 16.1 | 33.1 | 0 | 8.4 | bajo | 1 |
| 2024-04-01 | 0 | 0 | 21.9 | 7.8 | 33 | 17.3 | 36.7 | 0 | 13.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-04-02 | 0 | 0 | 21.6 | 9.2 | 25 | 21.3 | 42.5 | 0 | 21.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-04-03 | 1 | 0 | 17.7 | 9.4 | 38 | 17.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 15.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-04-04 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 | 6.9 | 26 | 18.9 | 40 | 0 | 20.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2024-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 3.8 | 35 | 15.6 | 33.1 | 0 | 16.6 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 0.4 | 30 | 12.5 | 24.8 | 0 | 15 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 20.9 | 5.5 | 34 | 9.6 | 14.4 | 0.1 | 12.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-04-08 | 0 | 0 | 23.2 | 8.7 | 28 | 10.5 | 22.7 | 0 | 16.3 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-04-09 | 0 | 0 | 23.1 | 8.4 | 30 | 11.9 | 28.1 | 0 | 20.3 | moderado | 0 |
| 2024-04-10 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 7.7 | 25 | 16.6 | 36 | 0 | 26.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-04-11 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 8.2 | 30 | 11.2 | 27.4 | 0 | 23.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-04-12 | 0 | 0 | 26.9 | 10.9 | 27 | 14.9 | 27 | 0.2 | 25.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-04-13 | 0 | 0 | 23.4 | 12.2 | 28 | 17.3 | 36 | 0 | 27.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2024-04-14 | 0 | 0 | 21.6 | 9.9 | 32 | 17.5 | 34.2 | 0.2 | 32.5 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 256ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 7days
- 29 Mar 2024 – 4 Apr 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- districts
- Started on
- 29 Mar
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 44
- in a single hotspot: 51 MW
- Danger at start
- 7
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 520MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
29 Mar4 Apr
3 Apr 2024
How it evolved, day by day
29 Mar
3 Apr
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
22°high
49km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity
It had gone 10 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
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Starobesheve where it started219 ha reached on 29 Mar0.2 %
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25 ha reached on 29 Mar0.0 %
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11 ha reached on 29 Mar0.0 %
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
- Agricultural areas51 %
- Other natural land35 %
- Mixed forest14 %
- Other land cover0.8 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Mar | 16.9 °C | 58 % | 49 km/h | 4.8 mm | Low 7 |
| 30 Mar | 18.0 °C | 43 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 31 Mar | 20.6 °C | 34 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 1 Apr | 21.9 °C | 33 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 2 Apr | 21.6 °C | 25 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 3 Apr | 17.7 °C | 38 % | 40 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 4 Apr | 19.9 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 5 Apr after | 14.3 °C | 35 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 6 Apr after | 17.8 °C | 30 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 7 Apr after | 20.9 °C | 34 % | 14 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 8 Apr after | 23.2 °C | 28 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 9 Apr after | 23.1 °C | 30 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 10 Apr after | 24.0 °C | 25 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 11 Apr after | 25.7 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 12 Apr after | 26.9 °C | 27 % | 27 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 25 |
| 13 Apr after | 23.4 °C | 28 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 14 Apr after | 21.6 °C | 32 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 32 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 7.3, a minimum humidity of 58% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 51.
FWI at the start
7.3
Minimum humidity
58 %
Days without rain
10
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Starobesheve fire, 29 March 2024
256 ha
7 days
FWI 7.3
Min. humidity 58 %
Kalininsky District fire, March 2020
3,240 ha
7 days
FWI 7.1
Min. humidity 58 %
208 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Novoazovsk fire, October 2023
102 ha
1 day
FWI 12.7
Min. humidity 58 %
54 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.9 mm on 25 Oct.
Pavlohrad fire, October 2024
167 ha
1 day
FWI 6.6
Min. humidity 60 %
166 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.1 mm on 18 Oct.
Nikolske fire, March 2023
152 ha
1 day
FWI 2.3
Min. humidity 58 %
85 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.8 mm on 11 Mar.
Boikivske fire, October 2023
208 ha
1 day
FWI 13.7
Min. humidity 57 %
20 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.5 mm on 16 Oct.
What happened to them
- 1 day
- median duration
- 166 ha
- median area
- 8 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 2.6 mm
- rain at the end (median; 44 of 51 had it)
It was 1.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 7 days, against 1 day.
Only 14 of its 51 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 7 of 51, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.6 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
49km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 4 Apr, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 44 of 51, with a median of 2.6 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 22 Mar 2024
After · 11 Apr 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 54 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 25: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak54 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM1070 µg/m³
Optical depth0.85
WHO 15
27 Mar31 Mar4 Apr8 Apr
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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 · 44Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 1,354 haVolnovakha Волноваський район20 March 2022 · 3 days · 8 km away
- 10,977 haBoikivske Кальміуський район8 July 2025 · 4 days · 10 km away
- 2,027 haBoikivske Кальміуський район30 August 2023 · 1 day · 19 km away
- 2,125 haMarinka Мар'їнський район29 July 2025 · 3 days · 30 km away
- 1,398 haNovoazovsk Новоазовський район12 July 2025 · 2 days · 35 km away
- 1,659 haMarinka Мар'їнський район16 August 2026 · 8 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Starobesheve fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 March 2024 to 4 April 2024 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 29 March 2024 to 31 March 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 256 hectares (2.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Starobesheve (219 ha, 0.2 %); Volnovakha (25 ha, 0.0 %); Boikivske (11 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 12.3 km of the centre of Boikivske, 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 21.9 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 51. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 166 ha; 8 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 14 of its 51 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 7 of 51, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.6 mm.
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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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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 29 March 2024 to 31 March 2024. 44 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.