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Beryslav fire, August 2025 Beryslav

Out · last measured on 5 Aug 2025

The fire started on 3 August 2025 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 168 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 701th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 769 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

Burnt area
168ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
3 Aug 2025 – 5 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
3 Aug
2025
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start
20
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Aug5 Aug

The weather it burned in

33°high
38km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

72% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 121 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    168 ha reached on 8 Aug
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas64 %
  • Other natural land32 %
  • Mixed forest4.1 %

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)
3 Aug 29.5 °C 44 % 38 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 20
4 Aug 31.6 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
5 Aug 32.9 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Aug after 35.5 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
7 Aug after 31.5 °C 38 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Aug after 29.5 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 Aug after 31.7 °C 20 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Aug after 30.5 °C 22 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
11 Aug after 30.6 °C 28 % 45 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 50
12 Aug after 28.4 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Aug after 30.0 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Aug after 31.0 °C 21 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
15 Aug after 28.8 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Jul 2025
After · 12 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 7 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.54
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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)

Detections table · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Beryslav fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 August 2025 and 5 August 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 168 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (168 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.

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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.