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Beryslav fire, 18 July 2026 Beryslav

Out · last detection 6 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC

The fire started on 18 July 2026 in Beryslav, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 321 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 362th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 264 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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Burnt area
321ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 20days
18 Jul 2026 – 6 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
18 Jul
2026
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 121 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
27MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul6 Aug
6 Aug 2026

How it evolved, day by day

18 Jul 2026 · 155 MW · 3 19 Jul 2026 · 1 MW · 1 26 Jul 2026 · 6 MW · 1 31 Jul 2026 · 1 MW · 1 1 Aug 2026 · 8 MW · 2 2 Aug 2026 · 7 MW · 1 6 Aug 2026 · 9 MW · 1
18 Jul 19 Jul 26 Jul 31 Jul 1 Aug 2 Aug 6 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

37°high
45km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Beryslav where it started
    321 ha reached on 18 Jul
    0.2 %

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 areas95 %
  • Other natural land4.7 %

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)
18 Jul 26.6 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
19 Jul 29.9 °C 30 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
20 Jul 31.4 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
21 Jul 26.7 °C 52 % 41 km/h 5.4 mm Very low 3
22 Jul 27.5 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Low 9
23 Jul 24.2 °C 47 % 39 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 14
24 Jul 25.3 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 12
25 Jul 26.4 °C 44 % 38 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 13
26 Jul 28.9 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
27 Jul 30.3 °C 27 % 40 km/h 0.1 mm High 27
28 Jul 27.2 °C 44 % 45 km/h 9.3 mm Very low 4
29 Jul 26.0 °C 29 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
30 Jul 28.2 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
31 Jul 29.6 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
1 Aug 30.7 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Aug 32.7 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Aug 33.8 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
4 Aug 35.4 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 Aug 35.6 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
6 Aug 36.8 °C 19 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
7 Aug after 37.1 °C 19 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
8 Aug after 35.5 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.5 mm Very high 45
9 Aug after 30.9 °C 39 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
10 Aug after 32.8 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
11 Aug after 34.2 °C 25 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
12 Aug after 29.5 °C 24 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 40
13 Aug after 26.2 °C 25 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Aug after 26.4 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
15 Aug after 28.1 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Aug after 29.4 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 11 Jul 2026
After · 13 Aug 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 16 July 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
PM1014 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
161718192021
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 · 10Every 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 (18 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 6 August 2026 (20 days from 18 July 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 321 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Beryslav (321 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, 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 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.
  • 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. 10 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.

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.