Beryslav fire, 21 June 2026 Beryslav, Hornostaivka
The fire started on 21 June 2026 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 900 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 102th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 51 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.
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- Burnt area
- 900ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- ≈ 15days
- 21 Jun 2026 – 5 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 21 Jun
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 20
- in a single hotspot: 41 MW
- Average daily power
- 58MW
- 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.
This area had burned before
46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 76 ha in 2024, 341 ha in 2025.
- 213 ha Hornostaivka fire, June 2025 237 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 61 ha Beryslav fire, July 2024 109 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 60 ha Beryslav fire, June 2025 160 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 28 ha Hornostaivka fire, June 2025 1,231 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9 ha Beryslav fire, June 2025 274 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 started569 ha reached on 23 Jun0.4 %
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331 ha reached on 26 Jun0.4 %
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 areas70 %
- Other natural land30 %
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 1.5 hectares of built-up land and about 30 residents (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
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 20 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 15 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 · 20Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 3,374 haHornostaivka Горностаївський район24 June 2026 · 12 days · 7 km away
- 2,730 haHornostaivka Горностаївський район20 July 2026 · 13 days · 7 km away
- 3,581 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 24 days · 13 km away
- 3,316 haBeryslav14 June 2026 · 22 days · 13 km away
- 2,403 haKakhovka Каховський район17 June 2026 · 1 day · 15 km away
- 4,178 haBeryslav22 September 2023 · 11 days · 19 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Beryslav fire last?
- The official perimeter only gives the start date (22 June 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 5 July 2026 (15 days from 21 June 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 900 hectares (9.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Beryslav (569 ha, 0.4 %); Hornostaivka (331 ha, 0.4 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire came within 13.0 km of the centre of Hornostaivka, 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.
- 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; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
- The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 20 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- 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.