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Tokmak fire, 24 August 2024 Токмак · Tokmak

Out · last measured on 26 Aug 2024

The fire started on 24 August 2024 in Tokmak, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 328 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 91th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 529 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

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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
328ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
24 Aug 2024 – 26 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
24 Aug
2024
Danger at start
9
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

34°high
40km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 mm on 2 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Tokmak Токмак 29,573 inhabitants · 6.8 km from the centre where it started
    328 ha reached on 24 Aug
    0.2 %

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

  • Mixed forest53 %
  • Other natural land32 %
  • Agricultural areas14 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.6 %

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)
24 Aug 34.0 °C 33 % 26 km/h 7.5 mm Low 9
25 Aug 33.4 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
26 Aug 33.6 °C 22 % 40 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 39
27 Aug after 27.8 °C 33 % 43 km/h 0.6 mm High 34
28 Aug after 32.4 °C 24 % 48 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 43
29 Aug after 32.1 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 41
30 Aug after 28.9 °C 26 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 44
31 Aug after 31.0 °C 22 % 54 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 50
1 Sept after 32.0 °C 22 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
2 Sept after 31.0 °C 30 % 45 km/h 2.5 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Aug 2024
After · 2 Sept 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 24 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1069 µg/m³
Optical depth0.39
2223242526272829
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 Tokmak fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 24 August 2024 and 26 August 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 328 hectares (3.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tokmak (328 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Tokmak and came within 6.8 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 34.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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.

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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.

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.