Fire near Чулаківська сільська громада (UA)

46.35°N, 32.13°E · first detected on 8 August at 19:54

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 8 August at 19:54 to 9 August at 00:46, through 3 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 153 ha.

Detected extent: 153 ha
Cumulative power: 8 MW
Peak power: 6 MW
Detections: 3

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole known life of the fire — from the first trace, satellite or report, to the last announcement from emergency services — and the ticks on the bar mark those announcements. Detections often stop before containment: a fire stops radiating once it stops spreading, which is exactly when it is declared contained. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “12 h” stacks twelve hours , as the home map does, where stacking avoids an empty screen between two satellite passes. Both are true, but they say different things.

The detected extent

Outline of the burned area near Чулаківська сільська громада (UA), drawn over satellite imagery — The outline is the union of the ground footprints of every satellite detection of this fire, from the first pass to the last. The background is the EOX cloudless Sentinel-2 mosaic, 2024 vintage: it shows the landscape BEFORE these fires, not the burn scar.

The spread, pass after pass

Чулаківська сільська громада (UA) seen by Sentinel-2 on 11 August — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

Чулаківська сільська громада (UA) seen by Sentinel-2 on 13 August — One image per usable Sentinel-2 pass, on the same framing throughout so that the comparison means something. The satellite comes back every two to five days and clouds rule out some of the passes: the gaps in the series are days without an image, not days without fire.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power	Detections	Sensor
31 August at 12:28	26 MW	1	Met12
31 August at 12:19	42 MW	2	N20
31 August at 12:18	67 MW	2	Met12
31 August at 12:08	149 MW	4	Met12
31 August at 12:02	174 MW	3	N
31 August at 11:58	222 MW	3	Met12
31 August at 11:48	21 MW	1	Met12
30 August at 15:18	54 MW	1	Met12
22 August at 09:41	15 MW	1	Terra
18 August at 02:22	1 MW	1	N21
17 August at 13:21	6 MW	1	N20
17 August at 13:04	27 MW	4	N
17 August at 12:28	18 MW	4	N21
17 August at 11:41	40 MW	6	N20
17 August at 01:56	3 MW	4	N20
17 August at 01:37	1 MW	1	N
17 August at 01:01	2 MW	1	N21
16 August at 15:04	77 MW	3	Aqua
16 August at 13:42	535 MW	22	N20
16 August at 13:21	251 MW	19	N
16 August at 12:45	613 MW	15	N21
16 August at 12:02	296 MW	6	N20
16 August at 11:41	108 MW	5	N
15 August at 14:27	41 MW	2	Aqua
15 August at 14:00	12 MW	2	N20
15 August at 13:42	21 MW	4	N
15 August at 13:04	13 MW	2	N21
15 August at 12:19	39 MW	7	N20
15 August at 12:00	15 MW	3	N
15 August at 02:35	2 MW	2	N20
15 August at 02:16	3 MW	3	N
15 August at 01:39	2 MW	2	N21
14 August at 20:32	34 MW	1	Terra
14 August at 14:00	75 MW	9	N
14 August at 13:23	80 MW	4	N21
14 August at 12:38	26 MW	6	N20
14 August at 12:19	28 MW	5	N
14 August at 11:43	56 MW	7	N21
14 August at 02:52	6 MW	6	N20
14 August at 02:35	5 MW	4	N
14 August at 01:58	9 MW	6	N21
14 August at 01:12	8 MW	5	N20
14 August at 00:54	7 MW	4	N
13 August at 19:52	10 MW	1	Terra
13 August at 14:49	16 MW	2	Aqua
13 August at 12:58	11 MW	3	N20
13 August at 12:38	10 MW	1	N
13 August at 12:02	41 MW	5	N21
13 August at 08:44	69 MW	2	Terra
13 August at 03:11	7 MW	4	N20
13 August at 02:52	9 MW	4	N
13 August at 02:16	30 MW	6	N21
13 August at 01:31	12 MW	5	N20
13 August at 01:12	10 MW	5	N
13 August at 00:35	1 MW	1	N21
9 August at 00:46	2 MW	2	N
8 August at 19:54	6 MW	1	Terra
4 August at 13:13	3 MW	1	N21
4 August at 12:26	5 MW	1	N20

3 other fires near Чулаківська сільська громада (UA)

Separate fires, apart in time or in space, not pieces of this one. A single municipality can have several over one summer, and the forest of Fontainebleau alone covers 172 square kilometres.

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