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Borova fire, October 2026 Борівський район · Svatove, Kreminna, Borova

Burning · last detection 28 Oct 2026, 23:31 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 23 October 2026 in Borova, Ukraine. It has been active for 6 days, with 14 heat detections and an area with fire of about 182 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 4 municipalities.

The power measured by the satellite is low (9.7 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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Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Is it still active?

Satellites detected fire on 28 Oct 2026, 23:31 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.

Area with fire
≈ 182ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
6days
23 Oct 2026 – 28 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
4
districts
Started on
23 Oct
2026
Heat detections
14
in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Average daily power
27MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Oct28 Oct
28 Oct 2026

How it evolved, day by day

23 Oct 2026 · 34 MW · 2 24 Oct 2026 · 8 MW · 1 25 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 26 Oct 2026 · 39 MW · 7 27 Oct 2026 · 12 MW · 4 28 Oct 2026 · 38 MW · 8
23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct

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

What happened to each town

  1. Svatove Сватівський район 80,900 inhabitants · 30.4 km from the centre where it started
    84 ha reached on 23 Oct
    0.0 %
  2. Kreminna Кремінський район 41,084 inhabitants · 25.9 km from the centre
    56 ha reached on 28 Oct
    0.0 %
  3. Borova Борівський район 4.2 km from the centre
    42 ha reached on 23 Oct
    0.0 %
  4. Kupiansk Куп'янський район 137,200 inhabitants · 20.0 km from the centre
    0 ha reached on 24 Oct
    0.0 %

Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. 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.

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Oct 2026
After · 28 Oct 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.

Detections table · 14Every 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 Borova fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 23 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (6 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 182 hectares with fire (1.8 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 4 municipalities: Svatove (84 ha, 0.0 %); Kreminna (56 ha, 0.0 %); Borova (42 ha, 0.0 %); Kupiansk (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Is the Borova fire still active?
Yes: satellites detected fire on 28 Oct 2026, 23:31 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 4.2 km of the centre of Borova, 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.
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
  • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 182 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
  • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 14 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.

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.