Zarichne fire, November 2024 Зарічненський район · Zarichne
The fire started on 1 November 2024 in Zarichne, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 312 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 63th largest in Rivne Oblast since 2016 (of 167 with a page). Number 559 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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- Burnt area
- 312ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 1 Nov 2024 – 2 Nov 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 Nov
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 6
- in a single hotspot: 111 MW
- Danger at start
- 6
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 171MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
1 Nov 2024 · 171 MW · 6
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 194 ha in 2020, 114 ha in 2021, 182 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 299 ha that had burned before.
- 194 ha Zarichne fire, March 2020 1,444 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 182 ha Zarichne fire, May 2022 313 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 112 ha Zarichne fire, October 2021 409 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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312 ha reached on 1 Nov0.2 %
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 land97 %
- Mixed forest2.0 %
- Agricultural areas1.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov | 13.8 °C | 63 % | 69 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 6 |
| 2 Nov | 12.0 °C | 43 % | 61 km/h | 1.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 3 Nov after | 6.4 °C | 51 % | 50 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 4 Nov after | 7.4 °C | 45 % | 58 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 8 |
| 5 Nov after | 7.2 °C | 64 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 6 Nov after | 9.7 °C | 58 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 7 Nov after | 7.7 °C | 74 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 8 Nov after | 5.6 °C | 90 % | 20 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very low 1 |
| 9 Nov after | 5.1 °C | 84 % | 14 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very low 1 |
| 10 Nov after | 3.6 °C | 80 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 11 Nov after | 2.6 °C | 84 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 12 Nov after | 2.2 °C | 82 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 30 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 6Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,444 haZarichne Зарічненський район26 March 2020 · 8 days · 2 km away
- 455 haZarichne Зарічненський район21 October 2021 · 3 days · 9 km away
- 798 haZarichne Зарічненський район24 March 2020 · 4 days · 10 km away
- 6,649 haZarichne Зарічненський район27 March 2020 · 14 days · 27 km away
- 459 haZarichne Зарічненський район6 March 2025 · 1 day · 29 km away
- 455 haVolodymyrets Володимирецький район6 March 2025 · 3 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Zarichne fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 1 November 2024 and 2 November 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 312 hectares (3.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Zarichne (312 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Zarichne and came within 11.7 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 13.8 °C, humidity dropped to 43 % and gusts hit 69 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class Low.
- 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.
Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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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. 6 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.
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.