How long did the Veselynove fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 25 August 2022 and 25 August 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 342 hectares (3.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Veselynove (343 ha, 0.2 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2022-08-25 → 2022-08-25

Veselynove fire, August 2022 Veselynove

Out · last detection 25 Aug 2022, 11:36 UTC

The fire started on 25 August 2022 in Veselynove, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 342 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 39th largest in Mykolaiv Oblast since 2016 (of 115 with a page). Number 131 in Ukraine in 2022, of 531.

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Burnt area: 342ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 25 Aug 2022 – 25 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 25 Aug; 2022
Heat detections: 29; in a single hotspot: 74 MW
Danger at start: 32; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 1.4GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Aug25 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

25 Aug 2022 · 1,411 MW · 29

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

The weather it burned in

33°high

49km/h · peak gust

19%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.8 mm on 3 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Veselynove where it started

343 ha reached on 25 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

Coniferous forest56 %
Mixed forest37 %
Other natural land4.1 %
Agricultural areas2.4 %

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)
25 Aug	33.1 °C	19 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
26 Aug after	30.5 °C	28 %	43 km/h	0.2 mm	High 29
27 Aug after	30.6 °C	32 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
28 Aug after	32.9 °C	21 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
29 Aug after	35.0 °C	19 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
30 Aug after	35.2 °C	26 %	19 km/h	0.3 mm	High 26
31 Aug after	32.7 °C	29 %	33 km/h	0.1 mm	High 34
1 Sept after	26.9 °C	35 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
2 Sept after	25.7 °C	22 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
3 Sept after	22.7 °C	27 %	44 km/h	3.8 mm	Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 18 Aug 2022

After · 1 Sept 2022

Before After

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 2022 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak19 µg/m³

Days over the guideline1 day

PM1066 µg/m³

Optical depth0.73

WHO 15

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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 · 29Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Veselynove fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 25 August 2022 and 25 August 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 342 hectares (3.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Veselynove (343 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.

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. 29 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.

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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.

Where it burned