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Verkhniy Rohackyk fire, 2 July 2024 Верхньорогачицький район · Verkhniy Rohackyk, Velyka Bilozerka

Out · last detection 2 Jul 2024, 10:01 UTC

The fire started on 2 July 2024 in Verkhniy Rohackyk, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 232 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 517th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 795 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.

The power measured by the satellite is low (23.1 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
232ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
2 Jul 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
2 Jul
2024
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 23 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
23MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jul4 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

2 Jul 2024 · 23 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

37°high
43km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.9 mm on 5 Jul.

This area had burned before

9% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 22 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Verkhniy Rohackyk Верхньорогачицький район 11,336 inhabitants · 23.8 km from the centre where it started
    162 ha reached on 2 Jul
    0.2 %
  2. Velyka Bilozerka Великобілозерський район 7,764 inhabitants · 16.5 km from the centre
    70 ha
    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

  • Other natural land62 %
  • Agricultural areas37 %
  • Other land cover0.9 %

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)
2 Jul 36.6 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
3 Jul 35.2 °C 22 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Jul 33.7 °C 32 % 34 km/h 2.6 mm Moderate 20
5 Jul after 33.3 °C 42 % 31 km/h 3.9 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Jun 2024
After · 11 Jul 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 5 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1039 µg/m³
Optical depth0.82
301234567
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 Verkhniy Rohackyk fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 July 2024 and 4 July 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 232 hectares (2.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Verkhniy Rohackyk (162 ha, 0.2 %); Velyka Bilozerka (70 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 16.5 km of the centre of Velyka Bilozerka, 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 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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. 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.

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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.