Drohobych fire, 28 January 2025 Дрогобицький район · Drohobych
The fire started on 28 January 2025 in Drohobych, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,006 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 3th largest in Lviv Oblast since 2016 (of 105 with a page). Number 57 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
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- Burnt area
- 1,006ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 6days
- 28 Jan 2025 – 2 Feb 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 28 Jan
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 9
- in a single hotspot: 92 MW
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 141MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
76% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 348 ha in 2021, 354 ha in 2022, 23 ha in 2023, 227 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 761 ha that had burned before.
- 262 ha Drohobych fire, March 2022 263 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 191 ha Drohobych fire, February 2024 394 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 159 ha Drohobych fire, October 2021 221 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 111 ha Drohobych fire, October 2021 254 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 78 ha Drohobych fire, October 2021 452 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 40 ha Drohobych fire, March 2022 318 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 37 ha Drohobych fire, March 2022 192 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Kyiv boundary: geoBoundaries · OpenStreetMap, Wambacher · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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1,008 ha reached on 28 Jan0.6 %
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 land43 %
- Agricultural areas30 %
- Mixed forest25 %
- Broadleaved forest1.8 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jan | 12.0 °C | 55 % | 50 km/h | 2.4 mm | Very low 0 |
| 30 Jan | 12.4 °C | 47 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 31 Jan | 11.8 °C | 62 % | 41 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very low 1 |
| 1 Feb | 3.7 °C | 57 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 2 Feb | 2.7 °C | 54 % | 19 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very low 1 |
| 3 Feb after | 1.9 °C | 49 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 1 |
| 4 Feb after | 2.1 °C | 61 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 5 Feb after | 4.0 °C | 64 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 6 Feb after | 0.8 °C | 77 % | 28 km/h | 0.6 mm | Very low 1 |
| 7 Feb after | 0.7 °C | 48 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 8 Feb after | 0.3 °C | 55 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 9 Feb after | 1.1 °C | 42 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 10 Feb after | 2.2 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 11 Feb after | -0.7 °C | 50 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 12 Feb after | 2.3 °C | 38 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 5 February 2025 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 394 haDrohobych Дрогобицький районFebruary 2024 · 3 days · 1 km away
- 452 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район20 October 2021 · 6 days · 3 km away
- 530 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район22 February 2025 · 4 days · 5 km away
- 698 haDrohobych Дрогобицький район28 January 2025 · 3 days · 6 km away
- 1,146 haSambir Самбірський районMarch 2020 · 11 days · 10 km away
- 865 haSambir Самбірський район14 March 2026 · 5 days · 10 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Drohobych fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 January 2025 to 2 February 2025 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 29 January 2025 to 2 February 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,006 hectares (10.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Drohobych (1,008 ha, 0.6 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Drohobych and came within 20.8 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 12.4 °C, humidity dropped to 47 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very low.
- 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 ›
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.
Does something look wrong on this page?
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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 January 2025 to 2 February 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.
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.