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Beryslav fire, 13 September 2023 Beryslav

Out · last measured on 16 Sept 2023

The fire started on 13 September 2023 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 545 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 185th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 65 in Ukraine in 2023, of 491.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
545ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
4days
13 Sept 2023 – 16 Sept 2023
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Sept
2023
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

27°high
41km/h · peak gust
33%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5.4 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 happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    546 ha reached on 13 Sept
    0.3 %

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 land53 %
  • Agricultural areas47 %

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)
13 Sept 26.9 °C 33 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
14 Sept 26.4 °C 41 % 36 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 21
15 Sept 25.2 °C 57 % 41 km/h 4.9 mm Low 6
16 Sept 22.9 °C 44 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
17 Sept after 25.1 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
18 Sept after 25.9 °C 32 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
19 Sept after 27.1 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
20 Sept after 27.9 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
21 Sept after 28.1 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
22 Sept after 28.8 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
23 Sept after 28.9 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
24 Sept after 29.6 °C 33 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
25 Sept after 28.9 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Sept after 29.0 °C 25 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Sept 2023
After · 23 Sept 2023

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 · Copernicus

On 12 September 2023 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.30
111213141516171819
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Beryslav fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 13 September 2023 and 16 September 2023: 4 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 545 hectares (5.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (546 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 26.9 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class High.
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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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night 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. No 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.

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.