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Bakhmut fire, August 2025 Бахмутський район · Ukraine

Out · last measured on 2 Aug 2025

The fire started on 2 August 2025 in Bakhmut, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,192 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 29th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 47 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
1,192ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
2 Aug 2025 – 2 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
2 Aug
2025

Where it burned

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.8% of the area of London (12 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas90 %
  • Mixed forest8.4 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.8 %
  • Other natural land0.8 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Jul 2025
After · 9 Aug 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bakhmut fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 August 2025 and 2 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,192 hectares (11.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
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 ›

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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. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.