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Chaplynka fire, 1 July 2026 Чаплинський район · Chaplynka

Out · last measured on 2 Sept 2026

The fire started on 1 July 2026 in Chaplynka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 64 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 108 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1046th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 908 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
108ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
64days
1 Jul 2026 – 2 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2026
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

37°high
56km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.9 mm on 6 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Chaplynka Чаплинський район 34,149 inhabitants · 22.8 km from the centre where it started
    108 ha
    0.0 %

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

  • Other natural land100 %

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)
1 Jul 32.3 °C 40 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
2 Jul 33.8 °C 27 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Jul 34.4 °C 26 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Jul 27.2 °C 56 % 50 km/h 3.9 mm Low 9
5 Jul 26.3 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
6 Jul 28.1 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Jul 29.2 °C 22 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
8 Jul 30.0 °C 32 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Jul 23.7 °C 65 % 34 km/h 12.0 mm Very low 0
10 Jul 22.3 °C 54 % 31 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 1
11 Jul 26.7 °C 42 % 36 km/h 0.5 mm Low 8
12 Jul 27.2 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 15
13 Jul 27.7 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
14 Jul 28.2 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 17
15 Jul 29.1 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 18
16 Jul 30.9 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
17 Jul 28.5 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Jul 27.7 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
19 Jul 30.3 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jul 31.0 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
21 Jul 30.1 °C 38 % 42 km/h 0.5 mm High 31
22 Jul 30.1 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jul 24.2 °C 48 % 37 km/h 7.9 mm Very low 4
24 Jul 25.4 °C 42 % 35 km/h 1.0 mm Low 9
25 Jul 26.1 °C 50 % 36 km/h 4.1 mm Very low 5
26 Jul 29.0 °C 32 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 16
27 Jul 30.0 °C 31 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
28 Jul 29.0 °C 41 % 48 km/h 13.0 mm Very low 4
29 Jul 25.7 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
30 Jul 27.5 °C 30 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
31 Jul 29.8 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
1 Aug 31.4 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
2 Aug 33.0 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Aug 33.4 °C 29 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
4 Aug 34.8 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
5 Aug 35.0 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
6 Aug 36.8 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Aug 35.2 °C 26 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
8 Aug 35.0 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
9 Aug 31.8 °C 43 % 44 km/h 0.3 mm High 33
10 Aug 33.7 °C 39 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
11 Aug 34.0 °C 34 % 16 km/h 0.2 mm High 23
12 Aug 31.0 °C 34 % 46 km/h 0.4 mm High 34
13 Aug 25.9 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Aug 26.5 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Aug 26.9 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Aug 29.1 °C 26 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
17 Aug 30.5 °C 25 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
18 Aug 31.9 °C 24 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
19 Aug 23.7 °C 53 % 28 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 14
20 Aug 29.7 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
21 Aug 31.1 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Aug 34.5 °C 28 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
23 Aug 35.4 °C 21 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
24 Aug 29.6 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
25 Aug 30.2 °C 25 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
26 Aug 28.9 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Aug 25.5 °C 43 % 36 km/h 0.7 mm High 27
28 Aug 26.2 °C 40 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Aug 30.9 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Aug 30.0 °C 23 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Aug 29.5 °C 19 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Sept 30.0 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
2 Sept 31.2 °C 21 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
3 Sept after 29.0 °C 28 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Sept after 29.8 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm High 36
5 Sept after 30.9 °C 34 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
6 Sept after 25.2 °C 35 % 51 km/h 4.9 mm Moderate 12

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jun 2026
After · 9 Sept 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 30 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth1.01
29301234
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 Chaplynka fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 July 2026 to 2 September 2026 (64 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 July 2026 to 1 July 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 108 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Chaplynka (108 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Chaplynka and came within 22.8 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.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very 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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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.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 July 2026 to 1 July 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.

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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.