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Beryslav fire, 23 June 2026 Beryslav

Out · last measured on 2 Jul 2026

The fire started on 23 June 2026 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 109 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1038th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 901 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
109ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
10days
23 Jun 2026 – 2 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
23 Jun
2026
Danger at start
15
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
31km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 13 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    109 ha
    0.1 %

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 land68 %
  • Agricultural areas32 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area0.64 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.64 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)
23 Jun 31.5 °C 39 % 31 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 15
24 Jun 30.4 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
25 Jun 30.9 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Jun 27.8 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
27 Jun 27.9 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
28 Jun 32.5 °C 32 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jun 31.0 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Jun 34.8 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.4 mm High 29
1 Jul 32.3 °C 35 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jul 34.0 °C 27 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
3 Jul after 33.9 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Jun 2026
After · 9 Jul 2026

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 26 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1015 µg/m³
Optical depth0.42
212223242526
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?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 June 2026 to 2 July 2026 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 June 2026 to 23 June 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 109 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (109 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.5 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 15, class Moderate.
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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 23 June 2026 to 23 June 2026. 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.

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.