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Wildfire near Csernobil

42 660 hectares burned at Csernobil — Korosten is 67 km away, Ukraine. The fire burned between April 3, 2020 and April 13, 2020. On Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 15-meter resolution — roads and even houses are visible at this scale.

burned area42 660 ha
that is427 km²
resolution15 m
images4
countryUkraine
whenApril 3, 2020
nearest settlementCsernobil
known city nearbyKorosten · 67 km

Before and after

Drag the slider or click anywhere on the image. Arrow keys work too. Any two dates can be compared — pick below which one to show on the left and which on the right.

The area after the fire, April 10, 2020
The area before the fire, March 26, 2020
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before · 2020. 03. 26.
after · 2020. 04. 10.

The whole period, image by image

4 cloud-free Sentinel-2 images between March 26, 2020 and April 10, 2020. The orange outline is the burned area measured by Copernicus EMS.

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What does this image series show?

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite pair passes over the same area every two to three days, capturing the surface at a native 10-meter pixel size. This crop is 48 km wide, so we sized it to 15-meter pixels — the 42,660-hectare burn scar fits in one view and the detail survives.

The before/after slider shows a difference that took only days to appear. On the fresher images the fire may still be actively burning — smoke partly covers the scar, and the direction of the plume shows the wind.

Why is this better than the daily satellite map? The daily NASA layers on the main map are 250-meter composites: excellent at showing where and when fire burned, but not the detail. Sentinel-2 is far sharper — the trade-off is a revisit only every 2–3 days, and only cloud-free passes are usable.

Data, reuse and liability

Satellite imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026, via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Burned-area outline and size from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service / EFFIS-GWIS (CC BY 4.0). Hotspot detections: NASA MODIS and VIIRS.

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