Beryslav fire, 15 June 2026 Beryslav
The fire started on 15 June 2026 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 102 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 1085th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 958 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.
- Burnt area
- 102ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 15 Jun 2026 – 15 Jun 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 15 Jun
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 9 MW
- Danger at start
- 23
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.9 mm on 16 Jun.
This area had burned before
35% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 36 ha in 2025.
What happened to each town
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Beryslav where it started102 ha reached on 26 Jun0.1 %
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 areas90 %
- Other natural land10 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun | 24.5 °C | 40 % | 38 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 23 |
| 16 Jun after | 24.6 °C | 38 % | 31 km/h | 4.9 mm | Very low 4 |
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 17 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 7 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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,957 haBeryslav30 May 2025 · 13 days · 13 km away
- 5,595 haBeryslav2 June 2025 · 10 days · 20 km away
- 4,178 haBeryslav29 September 2023 · 4 days · 27 km away
- 3,581 haBeryslav20 June 2026 · 4 days · 32 km away
- 3,116 haBilozerka Білозерський район27 June 2026 · 1 day · 32 km away
- 3,517 haOleshky Олешківський район24 June 2025 · 4 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Beryslav fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 15 June 2026 and 15 June 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 102 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Beryslav (102 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 24.5 °C, humidity dropped to 40 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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
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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.