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Bilozerka fire, 17 June 2026 Білозерський район · Bilozerka

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2026, 10:43 UTC

The fire started on 17 June 2026 in Bilozerka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,390 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 58th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 30 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (20.5 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
1,390ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 22days
17 Jun 2026 – 8 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
17 Jun
2026
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 21 MW
Average daily power
53MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Jun8 Jul
1 Jul 2026

How it evolved, day by day

23 Jun 2026 · 63 MW · 6 28 Jun 2026 · 4 MW · 1 30 Jun 2026 · 138 MW · 13 1 Jul 2026 · 7 MW · 2
23 Jun 28 Jun 30 Jun 1 Jul

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

This area had burned before

41% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 177 ha in 2022, 566 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 567 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.9% of the area of London (14 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. Bilozerka Білозерський район 64,790 inhabitants · 1.7 km from the centre where it started
    1,388 ha reached on 23 Jun
    0.9 %

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 land3.9 %
  • Mixed forest0.8 %

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 area1.7 ha
Residents≈ 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.7 hectares of built-up land and about 20 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

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Jun 2026
After · 15 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 25 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak8 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM109 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
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)

Detections table · 22Every 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 Bilozerka fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (23 June 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 8 July 2026 (22 days from 17 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 1,390 hectares (13.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bilozerka (1,388 ha, 0.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Bilozerka and came within 1.7 km of its centre. 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.
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.
  • 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. 22 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • 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.