How long did the Dnipro fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 11 September 2025 and 13 September 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 120 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dnipro (119 ha, 0.1 %); Petrykivka (0 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.9 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 25.6 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2025-09-11 → 2025-09-13

Dnipro fire, September 2025 Дніпровський район · Dnipro, Petrykivka

Out · last detection 13 Sept 2025, 00:05 UTC

The fire started on 11 September 2025 in Dnipro, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 120 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.

Burnt area: 120ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 3days; 11 Sept 2025 – 13 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit: 2; districts
Started on: 11 Sept; 2025
Heat detections: 7; in a single hotspot: 55 MW
Danger at start: 29; High · FWI index
Energy released: 12MW; sum of detected power

Play back 13 Sept 2025

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Sept13 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

111213

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

The weather it burned in

26°high

37km/h · peak gust

23%lowest humidity

It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 13.1 mm on 18 Sept.

This area had burned before

68% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 82 ha in 2022.

78 ha Dnipro fire, March 2022 105 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Dnipro Дніпровський район 1,145,065 inhabitants · 11.9 km from the town where it started

119 ha reached on 11 Sept

0.1 %
Petrykivka Петриківський район 25,110 inhabitants · 23.1 km from the town

0 ha reached on 11 Sept

0.0 %

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

Agricultural areas47 %
Artificial surfaces28 %
Mixed forest25 %

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)
11 Sept	24.1 °C	24 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
12 Sept	25.6 °C	23 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
13 Sept	21.8 °C	26 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
14 Sept after	24.1 °C	31 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
15 Sept after	25.2 °C	23 %	50 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
16 Sept after	24.4 °C	21 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
17 Sept after	25.2 °C	30 %	35 km/h	0.1 mm	High 32
18 Sept after	17.2 °C	76 %	34 km/h	13.1 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 4 Sept 2025

After · 20 Sept 2025

Before After

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 16 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 62 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 39: 2.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak62 µg/m³

Days over the guideline8 days

PM1072 µg/m³

Optical depth0.49

WHO 15

910111213141516

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 · 7Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dnipro fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 11 September 2025 and 13 September 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 120 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dnipro (119 ha, 0.1 %); Petrykivka (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 11.9 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 25.6 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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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NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned