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Henichesk fire, June 2026 Генічеський район · Ukraine

Out · last measured on 19 Jun 2026

The fire started on 19 June 2026 in Henichesk, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 151 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 778th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 629 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
151ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
19 Jun 2026 – 19 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
19 Jun
2026
Danger at start
11
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

26°high
28km/h · peak gust
42%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 23 Jun.

This area had burned before

23% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 22 ha in 2024, 13 ha in 2025.

What burned

  • Other natural land76 %
  • Agricultural areas21 %
  • Other land cover2.7 %

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)
19 Jun 25.8 °C 42 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
20 Jun after 28.2 °C 40 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
21 Jun after 27.7 °C 40 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
22 Jun after 28.9 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
23 Jun after 30.5 °C 45 % 30 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 13

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Jun 2026
After · 26 Jun 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 19 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM109 µg/m³
Optical depth0.23
171819202122
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 Henichesk fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 19 June 2026 and 19 June 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 151 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.8 °C, humidity dropped to 42 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 11, class 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.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 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.

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.