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How accurate AERIS forecasts are

For each oblast, AERIS estimates the probability that an official air-raid alert will start there within the next 30 minutes. Every forecast is checked automatically once that time has passed. This is the honest summary: we count only forecasts made while the oblast had no alert yet, because during an alert “there will be an alert” is almost certain and says nothing about quality.

7 days30 days90 days
When risk is high
70%
an alert really did start (usual rate: 14.1%)
Alerts foreseen
43%
rated at least elevated risk in advance
Better than the usual rate
+23%
Brier skill: 0% means no better than always giving the average rate
Forecasts checked
8,915
1,254 of them came before an alert

Can you trust the percentages

If a forecast says “30%”, an alert should start in about 30% of such cases. The grey bar is what we forecast; the coloured bar is how often an alert really started.

By oblast

Forecasts for the next 30 minutes, only those made with no active alert at the time.

Forecast accuracy by oblast, 7 days
OblastForecastsBefore an alertHigh risk → alertAlerts foreseenBetter than the rate
Cherkasy Oblast2818379%47%+18%
Chernihiv Oblast1245440%94%-9%
Chernivtsi Oblast60333—0%+2%
Donetsk Oblast1514—100%-336%
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast64321—0%+5%
Kherson Oblast65023—0%-13%
Khmelnytskyi Oblast49845—16%+5%
Kirovohrad Oblast30312997%65%+21%
Kyiv City47998—4%+5%
Kyiv Oblast1938668%93%+18%
Luhansk Oblast162—0%-8%
Lviv Oblast64125—0%+2%
Mykolaiv Oblast45475100%19%+13%
Odesa Oblast52672—25%+14%
Poltava Oblast1788567%69%+2%
Rivne Oblast52668100%10%+13%
Sumy Oblast815273%100%+3%
Ternopil Oblast58546—0%+10%
Vinnytsia Oblast3887157%59%+9%
Volyn Oblast59544—0%+5%
Zakarpattia Oblast6713—0%-15%
Zaporizhzhia Oblast775083%98%-5%
Zhytomyr Oblast3887520%20%-5%

Other horizons

The forecast is a statistical estimate of risk for the oblast as a whole, not a warning. It does not say where or when anything will strike, and it does not replace official air-raid alert signals: in danger, act on them.

How we count: a forecast counts as correct if an official alert started in the oblast within its horizon (alerts.in.ua; for Kyiv, Kyiv Digital). “High risk” means the “high” and “critical” levels; “foreseen” means the level before the alert was at least “elevated”. Model versions in this period: forecast-logistic-5.