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Dnipro fire, 2 August 2025 Дніпровський район · Dnipro

Out · last detection 2 Aug 2025, 23:33 UTC

The fire started on 2 August 2025 in Dnipro, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 481 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 20th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 187 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

Burnt area
481ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
2 Aug 2025 – 2 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
2 Aug
2025
Heat detections
33
in a single hotspot: 203 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Aug2 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

2

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

The weather it burned in

29°high
36km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 11 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Dnipro Дніпровський район 1,145,065 inhabitants · 34.7 km from the town where it started
    481 ha reached on 2 Aug
    0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land66 %
  • Agricultural areas32 %
  • Mixed forest1.7 %

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)
2 Aug 29.4 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Aug after 25.9 °C 56 % 40 km/h 0.4 mm High 23
4 Aug after 27.0 °C 56 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
5 Aug after 31.7 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
6 Aug after 33.3 °C 31 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Aug after 28.7 °C 47 % 37 km/h 0.3 mm High 31
8 Aug after 27.8 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
9 Aug after 28.6 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug after 27.9 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
11 Aug after 26.7 °C 39 % 50 km/h 1.4 mm High 27

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Jul 2025
After · 9 Aug 2025

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 4 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 26 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak26 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1027 µg/m³
Optical depth0.76
3112345
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 · 33Every 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 Dnipro fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 August 2025 and 2 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 481 hectares (4.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dnipro (481 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 34.7 km of Dnipro. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.4 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, 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

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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.