Beryslav fire, 16 July 2024 Beryslav, Kakhovka
The fire started on 16 July 2024 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 715 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 134th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 189 in Ukraine in 2024, of 2092.
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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
- 715ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 3days
- 16 Jul 2024 – 18 Jul 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 16 Jul
- 2024
- Danger at start
- 47
- Very high · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 19 Jul.
This area had burned before
13% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 91 ha in 2023.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Beryslav where it started701 ha0.4 %
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12 ha0.0 %
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
- Agricultural areas86 %
- Other natural land9.4 %
- Artificial surfaces5.0 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 1.8 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul | 37.3 °C | 29 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 17 Jul | 38.1 °C | 27 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 18 Jul | 37.6 °C | 26 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 19 Jul after | 34.4 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 1.3 mm | High 31 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 19 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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)
Other fires nearby
- 5,595 haBeryslav2 June 2025 · 11 days · 3 km away
- 4,178 haBeryslav22 September 2023 · 11 days · 10 km away
- 2,957 haBeryslav30 May 2025 · 15 days · 10 km away
- 3,581 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 24 days · 16 km away
- 3,316 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 22 days · 24 km away
- 3,374 haHornostaivka Горностаївський район24 June 2026 · 12 days · 25 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Beryslav fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 July 2024 to 18 July 2024 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 July 2024 to 16 July 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 715 hectares (7.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Beryslav (701 ha, 0.4 %); Kakhovka (12 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 29.7 km of the centre of Kakhovka, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.1 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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 ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 16 July 2024 to 16 July 2024. 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.