Beryslav fire, 30 May 2025 Beryslav, Oleshky, Kakhovka
The fire started on 30 May 2025 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,957 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 14th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 10 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
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- Burnt area
- 2,957ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 15days
- 30 May 2025 – 13 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- districts
- Started on
- 30 May
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 38
- in a single hotspot: 82 MW
- Danger at start
- 6
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 54MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 12 Jun.
This area had burned before
32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 227 ha in 2023, 724 ha in 2024.
- 282 ha Beryslav fire, July 2024 1,988 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 201 ha Beryslav fire, August 2023 264 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 171 ha Beryslav fire, June 2024 177 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 134 ha Oleshky fire, August 2024 210 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 108 ha Beryslav fire, August 2024 114 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 17 ha Beryslav fire, September 2023 1,177 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2 ha Beryslav fire, July 2024 153 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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 started2,506 ha reached on 3 Jun1.6 %
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342 ha reached on 7 Jun0.2 %
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102 ha reached on 7 Jun0.0 %
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 areas62 %
- Other natural land38 %
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 1.2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May | 24.2 °C | 41 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 31 May | 23.8 °C | 55 % | 33 km/h | 2.4 mm | Very low 2 |
| 1 Jun | 27.2 °C | 31 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 2 Jun | 28.2 °C | 31 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 3 Jun | 30.7 °C | 30 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 4 Jun | 29.2 °C | 43 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 5 Jun | 27.3 °C | 31 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 6 Jun | 28.8 °C | 28 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 7 Jun | 30.4 °C | 31 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 8 Jun | 32.1 °C | 27 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 21 |
| 9 Jun | 33.4 °C | 28 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 10 Jun | 27.2 °C | 28 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 11 Jun | 26.8 °C | 23 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 12 Jun | 26.4 °C | 34 % | 47 km/h | 1.5 mm | Moderate 18 |
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 11 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 24 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)
Detections table · 38Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 5,595 haBeryslav2 June 2025 · 11 days · 7 km away
- 4,178 haBeryslav22 September 2023 · 11 days · 19 km away
- 3,581 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 24 days · 25 km away
- 3,517 haOleshky Олешківський район24 June 2025 · 7 days · 28 km away
- 2,768 haOleshky Олешківський район2 June 2025 · 10 days · 31 km away
- 3,316 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 22 days · 32 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 30 May 2025 to 13 June 2025 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 May 2025 to 11 June 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,957 hectares (29.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Beryslav (2,506 ha, 1.6 %); Oleshky (342 ha, 0.2 %); Kakhovka (102 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 33.2 km of the centre of Oleshky, 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 33.4 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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 ›
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.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 4 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 30 May 2025 to 11 June 2025. 38 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.