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Dobropillia fire, 29 July 2025 Добропільський район · Dobropillia

Out · last detection 31 Jul 2025, 00:29 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2025 in Dobropillia, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 208 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 401th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 607 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

The power measured by the satellite is low (5.8 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
208ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
8days
29 Jul 2025 – 5 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
29 Jul
2025
Heat detections
9
in a single hotspot: 6 MW
Danger at start
66
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
12MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul5 Aug
31 Jul 2025

How it evolved, day by day

29 Jul 2025 · 7 MW · 2 30 Jul 2025 · 30 MW · 6 31 Jul 2025 · 1 MW · 1
29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
50km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Dobropillia Добропільський район 15,695 inhabitants · 26.3 km from the centre where it started
    209 ha reached on 29 Jul
    0.2 %

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 areas54 %
  • Other natural land36 %
  • Mixed forest9.5 %

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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine Very dry air: 3.1 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
29 Jul 35.1 °C 14 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
30 Jul 37.7 °C 15 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 80
31 Jul 28.1 °C 48 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Aug 26.7 °C 42 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
2 Aug 30.5 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Aug 23.6 °C 59 % 37 km/h 11.0 mm Very low 0
4 Aug 25.1 °C 59 % 36 km/h 1.3 mm Very low 3
5 Aug 31.0 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
6 Aug after 33.0 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Aug after 31.5 °C 34 % 41 km/h 0.1 mm High 36
8 Aug after 28.6 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
9 Aug after 28.8 °C 25 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Aug after 28.3 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Aug after 27.4 °C 30 % 50 km/h 0.8 mm Very high 45
12 Aug after 26.0 °C 29 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
13 Aug after 28.2 °C 23 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
14 Aug after 27.6 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
15 Aug after 24.7 °C 30 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 66.0, a minimum humidity of 14% and 5 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 26.

FWI at the start 66.0
Minimum humidity 14 %
Days without rain 5
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Kupiansk fire, August 2024
126 ha 5 days FWI 66.1 Min. humidity 15 % 139 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

3 days
median duration
152 ha
median area
8 %
went past 1,000 ha
1.5 mm
rain at the end (median; 12 of 26 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (208 ha against a median of 152 ha) and lasted 8 days, against 3 days.

In 14 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.5 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
50km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 5 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 12 of 26, with a median of 1.5 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jul 2025
After · 12 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 3 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.67
27 Jul29 Jul31 Jul2 Aug
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 · 9Every 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 Dobropillia fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 July 2025 to 5 August 2025 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 29 July 2025 to 31 July 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 208 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dobropillia (209 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Dobropillia and came within 26.3 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 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 80, class Very extreme.
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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 26. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 152 ha; 8 % went past 1,000 ha. In 14 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.5 mm.

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

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes 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 29 July 2025 to 31 July 2025. 9 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.
  • 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.