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Beryslav fire, 20 June 2026 Beryslav, Novovorontsovka, Velyka Oleksandrivka

Out · last detection 22 Jun 2026, 00:26 UTC

The fire started on 20 June 2026 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 847 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 112th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 58 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (11.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
847ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 10days
20 Jun 2026 – 29 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
3
districts
Started on
20 Jun
2026
Heat detections
16
in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start
19
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
19MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jun29 Jun
22 Jun 2026

How it evolved, day by day

20 Jun 2026 · 5 MW · 4 21 Jun 2026 · 50 MW · 11 22 Jun 2026 · 3 MW · 1
20 Jun 21 Jun 22 Jun

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
42km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.8 mm on 4 Jul.

This area had burned before

11% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 11 ha in 2023, 63 ha in 2024, 32 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 91 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.5% of the area of London (8.5 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    430 ha reached on 20 Jun
    0.3 %
  2. Novovorontsovka Нововоронцовський район 20,373 inhabitants · 15.4 km from the centre
    394 ha reached on 21 Jun
    0.3 %
  3. Velyka Oleksandrivka Великоолександрівський район 24,719 inhabitants · 43.3 km from the centre
    23 ha
    0.0 %

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 areas89 %
  • Other natural land10 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

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 area0.82 ha
Residents≈ 30

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.82 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

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)
20 Jun 28.4 °C 32 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
21 Jun 28.1 °C 34 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
22 Jun 31.2 °C 26 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
23 Jun 31.6 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 21
24 Jun 30.5 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
25 Jun 30.9 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
26 Jun 27.7 °C 34 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
27 Jun 27.9 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Jun 32.3 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
29 Jun 31.4 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
30 Jun after 35.3 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
1 Jul after 32.4 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
2 Jul after 34.0 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
3 Jul after 34.2 °C 24 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Jul after 24.9 °C 49 % 44 km/h 9.8 mm Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Jun 2026
After · 6 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 24 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1021 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
18192021222324
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 · 16Every 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?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (20 June 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 29 June 2026 (10 days from 20 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 847 hectares (8.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Beryslav (430 ha, 0.3 %); Novovorontsovka (394 ha, 0.3 %); Velyka Oleksandrivka (23 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 15.4 km of the centre of Novovorontsovka, 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 32.3 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 21 June 2026 → 29 June 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery; 2 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. 16 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.