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Bilozerka fire, 12 June 2026 Білозерський район · Ukraine

Out · last measured on 27 Jun 2026

The fire started on 12 June 2026 in Bilozerka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 124 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 923th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 769 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
124ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
16days
12 Jun 2026 – 27 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
12 Jun
2026
Danger at start
5
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

36°high
45km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 19 Aug.

This area had burned before

19% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2022, 20 ha in 2025.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas98 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.6 %
  • Other natural land0.8 %

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)
9 Jul after 23.0 °C 47 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
10 Jul after 21.8 °C 52 % 30 km/h 4.2 mm Very low 1
11 Jul after 24.4 °C 48 % 27 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 3
12 Jul after 23.4 °C 49 % 26 km/h 1.1 mm Very low 4
13 Jul after 23.5 °C 58 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
14 Jul after 24.8 °C 50 % 24 km/h 1.4 mm Very low 5
15 Jul after 27.4 °C 51 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
16 Jul after 27.8 °C 48 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
17 Jul after 27.6 °C 44 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
18 Jul after 26.5 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
19 Jul after 25.9 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
20 Jul after 26.9 °C 52 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 16
21 Jul after 24.0 °C 65 % 27 km/h 3.6 mm Very low 3
22 Jul after 25.4 °C 49 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
23 Jul after 20.8 °C 70 % 42 km/h 8.2 mm Very low 2
24 Jul after 21.6 °C 55 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
25 Jul after 26.8 °C 39 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
26 Jul after 25.9 °C 40 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
27 Jul after 26.8 °C 44 % 37 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 16
28 Jul after 26.4 °C 41 % 43 km/h 5.2 mm Very low 4
29 Jul after 25.4 °C 36 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
30 Jul after 26.2 °C 39 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 11
31 Jul after 27.8 °C 38 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
1 Aug after 29.9 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
2 Aug after 31.5 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
3 Aug after 32.3 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
4 Aug after 33.7 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
5 Aug after 35.2 °C 25 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
6 Aug after 34.7 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
7 Aug after 35.8 °C 22 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Aug after 35.4 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
9 Aug after 29.5 °C 45 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
10 Aug after 31.5 °C 39 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
11 Aug after 32.5 °C 36 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
12 Aug after 28.9 °C 35 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
13 Aug after 25.8 °C 29 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
14 Aug after 26.0 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
15 Aug after 26.9 °C 32 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Aug after 27.2 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Aug after 28.2 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
18 Aug after 27.5 °C 43 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
19 Aug after 24.6 °C 45 % 30 km/h 2.2 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Jun 2026
After · 4 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 11 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM108 µg/m³
Optical depth0.30
101112131415
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 Bilozerka fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 June 2026 to 27 June 2026 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 June 2026 to 12 June 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 124 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % 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 ›

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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 12 June 2026 to 12 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.

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.