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Tomakivka fire, 25 August 2024 Томаківський район · Tomakivka, Nikopol

Out · last detection 26 Aug 2024, 11:11 UTC

The fire started on 25 August 2024 in Tomakivka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 266 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 57th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 682 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.1 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
266ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
25 Aug 2024 – 28 Aug 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
25 Aug
2024
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Danger at start
53
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
13MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Aug28 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

26 Aug 2024 · 13 MW · 1

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
47km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

14% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 36 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Tomakivka Томаківський район 24,658 inhabitants · 19.7 km from the centre where it started
    255 ha reached on 26 Aug
    0.2 %
  2. Nikopol Нікополь 105,160 inhabitants · 22.6 km from the centre
    10 ha
    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

  • Mixed forest59 %
  • Agricultural areas20 %
  • Other natural land14 %
  • Artificial surfaces6.8 %

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
25 Aug 33.8 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
26 Aug 33.6 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
27 Aug 28.0 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 44
28 Aug 32.4 °C 26 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
29 Aug after 30.9 °C 35 % 35 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 41
30 Aug after 29.7 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm Extreme 69
31 Aug after 31.2 °C 22 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 76
1 Sept after 31.4 °C 27 % 46 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 68
2 Sept after 31.4 °C 29 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
3 Sept after 25.0 °C 46 % 37 km/h 0.7 mm High 32
4 Sept after 25.9 °C 41 % 46 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 41
5 Sept after 29.3 °C 20 % 49 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 69
6 Sept after 28.6 °C 28 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
7 Sept after 26.1 °C 23 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 72

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 53.3, a minimum humidity of 27% and 19 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 37.

FWI at the start 53.3
Minimum humidity 27 %
Days without rain 19
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Huliaipole fire, August 2025
161 ha 1 day FWI 53.9 Min. humidity 26 % 124 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 24 Aug.

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What happened to them

2 days
median duration
237 ha
median area
5 %
went past 1,000 ha
5.6 mm
rain at the end (median; 27 of 37 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (266 ha against a median of 237 ha) and lasted 4 days, against 2 days.

In 10 of 37, 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 5.6 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
47km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 28 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 27 of 37, with a median of 5.6 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 2022.
  • 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.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Aug 2024
After · 4 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 27 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak23 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1068 µg/m³
Optical depth0.50
24 Aug26 Aug28 Aug30 Aug
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 · 1Every 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 Tomakivka fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 25 August 2024 to 28 August 2024 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 August 2024 to 28 August 2024.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 266 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tomakivka (255 ha, 0.2 %); Nikopol (10 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Tomakivka and came within 19.7 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 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
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 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 37. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 237 ha; 5 % went past 1,000 ha. In 10 of 37, 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 5.6 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 26 August 2024 to 28 August 2024. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection 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.